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

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

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Life, Motivational
Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.21, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Life, Motivational
"Walden". Book by Henry David Thoreau, 1854.

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

Henry David Thoreau
Love, Inspirational, Money
Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.125, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Motivational, Positive
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.87, BookBaby

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

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Life, Death
Walden ch. 2 (1854)

What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters compared to what lies within us. And when we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Confidence, Lying
Attributed in "The Life You Were Born to Live : A Guide to Finding Your Life Purpose" by Dan Millman, (p. xi), 1995.

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

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Being Yourself, Real

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.

Henry David Thoreau
Love, Inspirational, Loneliness
1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Solitude'.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Life, Birthday
Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.40, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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.

Henry David Thoreau
Love, Inspirational, Life
Walden ch. 18 (1854)

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

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Success, Achievement

Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Motivational, Dream

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Life, Inspiring
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.208, Xist Publishing

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Uplifting, Sports

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Life, Change
Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.212, Cosimo, Inc.

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.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Life, Motivational
Walden ch. 18 (1854)

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Motivational, Work
Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.83, Heron Dance Press

One is not born into the world to do everything but to do something.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Life, Generosity

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Learning, Stubborn
Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Uncommon Learning: Thoreau on Education”, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Opportunity, Believe In Yourself
Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.16, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

The devil finds work for idle hands.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Life, Hands
Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden: An Annotated Edition”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Life, Success
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.202, Penguin

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Life, Wise
Walden ch. 2 (1854)

When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Running, Dog
Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861”, p.10, New York Review of Books

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