It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWhat you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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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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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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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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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
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I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
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