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Henry David Thoreau Quotes about Life

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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.

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Single, Inspiration
Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.27, Heron Dance Press

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)

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

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Song, Men
Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.27, Heron Dance Press

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Cities, People

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.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Henry David Thoreau
Love, Life, Break Up
Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.12, Yale University Press

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)

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

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Business, Simple
Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Henry David Thoreau
Love, Life, Dream
Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.170, Yale University Press

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)

Waves of a serene life pass over us from time to time, like flakes of sunlight over the fields in cloudy weather.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Weather, Fields
Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.84, Heron Dance Press

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. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Cutting, Wish
Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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
Life, Happiness, Depression

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust.

Henry David Thoreau
Love, Life, Trust
Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Despair, Overcoming
Henry David Thoreau (1894). “Winter”

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Thinking, Clouds
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1768, Delphi Classics

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Money, Wealth And Happiness

I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Stars, Moon
Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.85, Cosimo, Inc.

If the day and night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal - that is your success.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Sweet, Congratulations
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.132, Graphic Arts Books

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

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Life, Generosity

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