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 have not lived. - Henry David Thoreau. View more images...
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself. - Henry David Thoreau. View more images...
I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. - Henry David Thoreau. View more images...
Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame. - Henry David Thoreau. View more images...
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness. - Henry David Thoreau. View more images...
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. - Henry David Thoreau. View more images...
You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure. - Henry David Thoreau. View more images...
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. - Henry David Thoreau. View more images...
Friendship is never established as an understood relation. It is a miracle which requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest imagination and of the rarest faith. - Henry David Thoreau. View more images...
To be awake is to be alive. - Henry David Thoreau. View more images...
Men are born to succeed, not fail. - Henry David Thoreau. View more images...
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it. - Henry David Thoreau. View more images...
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. - Henry David Thoreau. View more images...
Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream-world into reality. - Henry David Thoreau. View more images...
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. - Henry David Thoreau. View more images...