You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUBe resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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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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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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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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A lake is a landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
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Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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Life in us is like the water in a river.
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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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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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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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We are constantly invited to be what we are.
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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