It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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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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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I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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Write while the heat is in you.
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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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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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Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
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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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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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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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Life in us is like the water in a river.
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