Uplifting Quotes
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“Sleep is my escape. It gives me a break from the ceaseless self awareness that I choke on.”
Quote by -Henry Rollins
“You’re going to do what you’re going to do and that’s all there is. That’s all you got and that’s that.”
Quote by -Henry Rollins
“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that 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.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“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.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“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.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“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.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau