Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
Henry David Thoreau
Whatever my own practice may be, I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.
How does it become a man to behave toward this American government today? I answered that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
Read the best books first, or else you may not have a chance to read them at all.
Time is but the stream I go a-fishin in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.
Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.
and the cost of a thing is the amountof what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it,immediately or in the long run
If a thousand were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.
Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth
The cost of a things is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm
I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.
To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit it and read it are old women over their tea
There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.
I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favour in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. 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. 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.
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.
We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character
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