Henry David Thoreau Quotes 1

 

Henry David Thoreau Quotes 1

1.       to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours

2.      Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

3.      If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away

4.      What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

5.      The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

6.      Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

7.      There is no remedy for love but to love more.

8.     It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

9.      The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

10.  Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

11.   know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavour.

12.  Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

13.  You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

14.  Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

15.  You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

16.  Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

17.   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.

18.  As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

19.  Live the life you've dreamed.

20. None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

 

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With affection,

Ruben