“All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.”
— Henry David Thoreau“Any fool can make a ruleAnd any fool will mind it.”
— Henry David Thoreau“It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.”
— Henry David Thoreau“Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.”
— Henry David Thoreau“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.”
— Henry David Thoreau“Truth strikes us from behind and in the dark, as well as from before and in broad daylight.”
— Henry David Thoreau“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”
— Henry David ThoreauSuccess usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
— Henry David ThoreauIt's not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is: what are we busy about?
— Henry David ThoreauDawn is the dream of what we can become.
— Henry David ThoreauSuccess usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
— Henry David ThoreauThere is no remedy for love but to love more.
— Henry David ThoreauYou must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
— Henry David ThoreauA man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
— Henry David ThoreauNot until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves, and much of our ‘lostness’ begins in childhood.
— Henry David ThoreauA man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
— Henry David ThoreauMany men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.
— Henry David Thoreau“Things do not change; we change.”
— henry david thoreau