Henry David Thoreau Quotes, Thoughts and images

Think for yourself, or others will think for you without thinking of you.

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

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.

To have made even one person's life a little better, that is to succeed.

Every oak tree started as a couple of nuts who stood their ground.

I have no time to be in a hurry.

When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

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

be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

Maturity is when all of your mirrors turn into windows.

We are happy in proportion to the things we can do without.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

I make myself rich by making my wants few.

Dissent without action is consent.

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

Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.

When we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen.

Time is like a handful of sand - the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

The only way, to tell the truth, is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard.

Kindness to children, love for children, goodness to children-- these are the only investments that never fail.

I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.

There is no beginning too small.

The soul grows by subtraction, not addition.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence.

Do not despair of your life. You have force enough to overcome your obstacles.

We are constantly invited to be who we are.

Let nothing come between you and the light.

The secret of achievement is to hold a picture of a successful outcome in mind.

In the long run, you hit only what you aim at.

He who owns little is little owned.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

All good things are wild and free.

He who walks alone, waits for no-one.

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

Everyone must believe in something. I believe I'll go canoeing.