“All good things are wild and free.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.”
“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”
“Life isn’t about finding yourself; it’s about creating yourself. So live the life you imagined.”
“Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.”
“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”
“This world is but a canvas for our imagination.”
“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.”
“As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.”
“You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself into one.”
“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
“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.”
“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
“What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.”
“We are constantly invited to be who we are.”
“A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.”
“We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.”
“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.”
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”
“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”
“Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”
“The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.”
“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.”
“That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. ”
“Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.”
“I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
“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.”
“An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.”
“In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.”
“There is no remedy for love, but to love more.”
“Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.”
“My greatest skill in life has been to want but little.”
“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.”
“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”
“Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.”
“The heart is forever inexperienced.”
“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.”
“What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?”
“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.”
“Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.”
“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.”
“It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?”
“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 which he hears, however measured or far away.”
“I make myself rich by making my wants few.”
“The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.”
“When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.”
“Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.”
“What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?”
“All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.”
“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.”
“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”
“When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.”
“It is never too late to give up our prejudices.”
“Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?”
“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”
“I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.”
“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”
“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”
“The rule is to carry as little as possible.”
“I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it’s gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.”
“As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.”
“Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.”
“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.”
“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”
“I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man.”
“Only that day dawns to which we are awake.”
“Blessed are they who never read a newspaper, for they shall see Nature, and through her, God.”
“That government is best which governs least.”
“Oh to reach the point of death and realize one has not lived at all.”
“The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.”
“Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.”
“I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.”
“The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.”
“In a world of peace and love, music would be the universal language.”
“Methinks that the moment my legs began to move, my thoughts began to flow.”
“Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.”
“The biggest happiness is when at the end of the year you feel better than at the beginning.”
“Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives; I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide.”
“Of what significance are the things you can forget.”
“Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?”
“Do not suffer your life to be taken by newspapers.”
“Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.”
“There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.”
“The sun is but a morning star.”
“To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.”
“It often happens that a man develops a deeper love and friendship with his pet cat or dog than he does with most of the other humans in his life.”
“When you knock, ask to see God – none of the servants.”
“I do not judge men by anything they can do. Their greatest deed is the impression they make on me.”
“On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend’s life also, in our own, to the world.”
“A man had better starve at once than lose his innocence in the process of getting his bread.”
“That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.”
“Every child begins the world again.”
“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.”
“Simplify, simplify, simplify.”
“Morning glory is the best name, it always refreshes me to see it.”
“There is no history of how bad became better.”
“Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage.”
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