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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.

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

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

Henry David Thoreau
Motivational, Courage, Regret

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

Henry David Thoreau
Motivational, Death, Greatness

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

Henry David Thoreau
Motivational, Religious, Freedom
Civil Disobedience (1849) See Savio 1

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

Henry David Thoreau
Motivational, Friendship, Nature
Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.15, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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

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

All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.

Henry David Thoreau
Motivational, Men, Want
Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.39

Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.

Henry David Thoreau
Motivational, Doe, Bless
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.40, BookBaby

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

Henry David Thoreau
Motivational, Running, Long

Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. She exists for no other end. Do not resist. With the least inclination to be well, we should not be sick.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide
Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.119, Courier Corporation

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

Henry David Thoreau
Motivational, Men, Desire
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.357, Penguin

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

Henry David Thoreau
Motivational, Respect, Law
Civil Disobedience (1849)

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

Henry David Thoreau
Motivational, Success, Congratulations
Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.71, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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