93 quotes
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”
“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake”
“I learned this at least by my experiment that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams within the family he will meet with success.”
“Our life is frittered away by detail simplify simplify”
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.”
“The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.”
“I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude”
“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”
“It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?”
“Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in”
“Things do not change; we change.”
“As you simplify your life the laws of the universe will be simpler solitude will not be solitude poverty will not be poverty”
“Dreams are the touchstones of our character.”
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.”
“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”
“We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake not by mechanical aids but by an infinite expectation of wonder”
“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”
“Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.”
“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.”
“Under a government which imprisons any unjustly the true place for a just man is also a prison”
“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.”
“Where there is a brave man, in the thickest of the fight, there is the post of honour.”
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately”
“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.”
“Our life in family is frittered away by detail. Simplify simplify.”
“We need the tonic of wildness to restore our sense of wonder and our connection to life”
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.”
“Our lives are frittered away by detail. Simplify simplify and find peace.”
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.”
“Our life is frittered away by detail so simplify”
“Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.”
“What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.”
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams live the life you have imagined”
“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads”
“I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.”
“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
“There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness or peace in any place except what you bring to it yourself.”
“In wildness is the preservation of the world.”
“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.”
“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone”
“What a man thinks of himself that is what determines or rather indicates his fate”
“I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen.”
“The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.”
“The world is but a canvas to our imagination.”
“What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates his fate.”
“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.”
“It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.”
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately to front only the essential facts of life”
“Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you.”
“I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.”
“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.”
“Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.”
“I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.”
“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.”
“We make ourselves rich by making our wants few.”
“Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.”
“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.”
“The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend”
“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately to front only the essential facts of life.”
“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves”
“Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.”
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