Uplifting Quotes
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“Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice. Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait until that other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“In the long run men only hit what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“As to conforming outwardly and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Confucius said, "To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Happiness is like a butterfly, the more you chase it, the more it will evade you, but if you notice the other things around you, it will gently come and sit on your shoulder.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“I believe in the forest, and in the meadow, and in the night in which the corn grows.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“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”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“The true harvest of my life is intangible - a little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“A man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of life getting his living.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin!”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“To a philosopher all news is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau