Henry David Thoreau ( 10 of 165 )
Do not lose hold of your dreams or asprirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have read more
Do not lose hold of your dreams or asprirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and read more
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.
Fire is the most tolerable third party
Fire is the most tolerable third party
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a read more
I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances read more
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have even lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor. -Henry David Thoreau.
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It read more
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the read more
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.
Simplicity is the nature of great souls.
Simplicity is the nature of great souls.
Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.
Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.
