Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWhat does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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If you want to be happy, be!
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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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I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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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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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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