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