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“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”
“We need the tonic of wildness to restore our sense of wonder and our connection to life”
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.”
“The world is but a canvas to our imagination.”
“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.”
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
“The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.”
“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake”
“Things do not change; we change.”
“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”
“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”
“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.”
“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.”
“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.”
“Our life is frittered away by detail so simplify”
“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”
“Where there is a brave man, in the thickest of the fight, there is the post of honour.”
“It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?”
“The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend”
“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.”
“I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.”
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.”
“We make ourselves rich by making our wants few.”
“Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.”
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately to front only the essential facts of life”
“The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.”
“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads”
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.”
“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.”
“I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.”
“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 mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”
“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
“We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake not by mechanical aids but by an infinite expectation of wonder”
“What a man thinks of himself that is what determines or rather indicates his fate”
“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams live the life you have imagined”
“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”
“What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates his fate.”
“Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in”
“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.”
“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.”
“Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you.”
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately to front only the essential facts of life.”
“Our lives are frittered away by detail. Simplify simplify and find peace.”
“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.”
“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.”
“Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.”
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.”
“In wildness is the preservation of the world.”
“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.”
“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves”
“Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.”
“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.”
“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.”
“Our life in family is frittered away by detail. Simplify simplify.”
“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.”
“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.”
“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone”
“Under a government which imprisons any unjustly the true place for a just man is also a prison”
“I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude”
“What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.”
“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.”
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