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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe universe is wider than our views of it.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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We are constantly invited to be what we are.
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The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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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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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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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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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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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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