I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
Simplify, simplify, simplify!
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Our life is frittered away by detail.
Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.
The sun is but a morning star.
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
What lies before us and what lies behind us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
Be true to your work, your word, and your friends.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
I am thankful for a mind so simple that it feels gratitude and joy in every little thing.
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 truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down and commence living on its hint.
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when someone asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
Walden Quotes – Insights from Henry David Thoreau’s Timeless Work part 2
It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
A lake is a landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature.
Every path but your own is the path of fate.
It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life, thinking all that man owes the world is a concise account of his days, children will walk safer in the streets.
What is once well done is done forever.
We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
We are constantly invited to be who we are.
One afternoon near the end of the first summer, when I went to the village to get a shoe from the cobbler’s, I was seized and put into jail, because, as I have elsewhere related, I did not pay a tax to, or recognize the authority of, the State which buys and sells men, women, and children like cattle.
The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.
The universe is wider than our views of it.
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by; which even make us dangerous to existing institutions — such call I good books.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
The sun is but a morning star.
If you stand right fronting and face to face with a fact, you will see the sun glimmer on both its surfaces, as if it were a cimeter, and feel its sweet edge dividing you through the heart and marrow.
In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita, since whose composition years of the gods have elapsed, and in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial.
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