Henry David Thoreau: Trending quotes (page 3)

“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”

“I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.”

“Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.”

“I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”

“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”

“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”

“All good things are wild and free.”

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately…”

“I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”

“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”

“True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.”

“Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin!”

“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours … In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness.”

“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.”

“Men are born to succeed, not to fail.”

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”

“Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.”

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”