A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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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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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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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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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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 make myself rich by making my wants few.
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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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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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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What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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