Henry David Thoreau Quotes

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

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

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

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

He who walks alone, waits for no-one.

All good things are wild and free.

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

He who owns little is little owned.

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

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

Let nothing come between you and the light.

We are constantly invited to be who we are.

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

The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

The soul grows by subtraction, not addition.

There is no beginning too small.

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

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

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

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

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

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

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

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

Dissent without action is consent.

I make myself rich by making my wants few.

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

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

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

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

Maturity is when all of your mirrors turn into windows.

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

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

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

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

I have no time to be in a hurry.

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

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

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

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

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