I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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Write while the heat is in you.
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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.
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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.
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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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Things do not change; we change.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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We are constantly invited to be what we are.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
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I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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