The little things in life are as interesting as the big ones. — Henry David Thoreau

City life is millions of people being lonesome together. — Henry David Thoreau

Be it life or death, we crave only reality. — Henry David Thoreau

The only wealth is life. — Henry David Thoreau

This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction. — Henry David Thoreau

To have made even one person’s life a little better, that is to succeed. — Henry David Thoreau

Our life is frittered away by detail…simplify, simplify. — Henry David Thoreau

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. — Henry David Thoreau

However mean your life is, meet it and live it. — Henry David Thoreau

Live the life you’ve dreamed. — Henry David Thoreau

Sweep away the clutter of things that complicate our lives. — Henry David Thoreau

Do the best with your life for the rest of your life! — Henry David Thoreau

Life in us is like the water in a river. — Henry David Thoreau

We live but a fraction of our lives. — Henry David Thoreau

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. — Henry David Thoreau

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life. — Henry David Thoreau

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health. — Henry David Thoreau

Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine. — Henry David Thoreau

Surely joy is the condition of life. — Henry David Thoreau

Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows. — Henry David Thoreau

To affect the quality of the day that is the art of life. — Henry David Thoreau

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. — Henry David Thoreau

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat. — Henry David Thoreau

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. — Henry David Thoreau

Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity. — Henry David Thoreau

To be awake is to be alive. — Henry David Thoreau

Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me. — Henry David Thoreau

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake. — Henry David Thoreau

To be awake is to be completely alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. — 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. — Henry David Thoreau

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star. — Henry David Thoreau

The most alive is the wildest. — Henry David Thoreau

One is not born into the world to do everything but to do something. — Henry David Thoreau

When we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen. — Henry David Thoreau

In wilderness is the preservation of the world. — Henry David Thoreau

Wildness is the preservation of the World. — Henry David Thoreau

This curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than convenient; more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used. — Henry David Thoreau

Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, ‘I will simply be. — Henry David Thoreau

In what concerns you much, do not thInk that you have companions: know that you are alone In the world. — Henry David Thoreau

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

This world is but canvas to our imaginations. — Henry David Thoreau

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around. — Henry David Thoreau

The world rests on principles. — Henry David Thoreau

What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters compared to what lies within us. And when we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen. — Henry David Thoreau

All things in this world must be seen with youthful, hopeful eyes. — Henry David Thoreau

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. — Henry David Thoreau

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while. — 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. — Henry David Thoreau

When I hear a grown man or woman say, ‘Once I had faith in men, now I have not,’ I am inclined to ask, ‘Who are you whom the world has disappointed? Have not you rather disappointed the world? — Henry David Thoreau

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. — Henry David Thoreau

Lose the world, get lost in it, and find your soul. — Henry David Thoreau

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. — Henry David Thoreau

Hate can pardon more than love. — Henry David Thoreau

There is no remedy for love but to love more. — Henry David Thoreau

I love to be alone. I never found the companIon that was so companIonable as solItude. — Henry David Thoreau

Kindness to children, love for children, goodness to children––these are the only investments that never fail. — Henry David Thoreau

Love must be as much a light as it is a flame. — Henry David Thoreau

In a world of peace and love, music would be the universal language. — Henry David Thoreau

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. — Henry David Thoreau

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence. — Henry David Thoreau

Do not hire a man who Does your work for money, but him who Does it for love of it. — Henry David Thoreau

It often happens that a man develops a deeper love and friendship with his pet cat or dog than he does with most of the other humans in his life. — Henry David Thoreau

I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. — Henry David Thoreau

I have no time to be in a hurry. — Henry David Thoreau

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul’s estate. — Henry David Thoreau

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. — Henry David Thoreau

When it’s time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived. — Henry David Thoreau

You cannot hear music and noise at the same time. — Henry David Thoreau

We are double–edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice. — 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. — 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. — Henry David Thoreau

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

A mAn is wise with the wisdom of his time only, And ignorAnt with its ignorAnce. observe how the greAtest minds yield in some degree to the superstitions of their Age. — Henry David Thoreau

Time is like a handful of sand–the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers. — Henry David Thoreau

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. — Henry David Thoreau

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but The gentle touches of air and water working at Their leisure with a liberal allowance of time. — Henry David Thoreau

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant? — Henry David Thoreau

My profession is to always find God in nature. — Henry David Thoreau

The voice of nature is always encouraging. — Henry David Thoreau

I have a room all to myself; it is nature. — Henry David Thoreau

Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength. — Henry David Thoreau

Nature spontaneously keeps us well. Do not resist her! — Henry David Thoreau

If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man. — Henry David Thoreau

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature. — Henry David Thoreau

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature. — Henry David Thoreau

Nature abhors a vacuum, and if i can only walk with sufficient carelessness i am sure to be filled. — Henry David Thoreau

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand. — Henry David Thoreau

A lake is a landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature. — 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. — Henry David Thoreau

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. — Henry David Thoreau

Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary. — Henry David Thoreau

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

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution. — Henry David Thoreau

Sobriety, severity, and self–respect are the foundations of all true sociality. — Henry David Thoreau

Dreams are the touchstones of our character. — Henry David Thoreau

The future is too soon the past. So make perseverance your excellence and go confidently in the direction of your dreams. — Henry David Thoreau

You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself into one. — Henry David Thoreau

We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere We learn the language. — Henry David Thoreau

In dreams we see ourselves naked and actIng our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake. — Henry David Thoreau

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

Everyone must believe in something. I believe I’ll go canoeing. — Henry David Thoreau

Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make–believe. — Henry David Thoreau

I believe in the forest, and in the meadow, and in the night in which the corn grows. — Henry David Thoreau

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. men will believe what they see. — Henry David Thoreau

I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright. — Henry David Thoreau

I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man. — Henry David Thoreau

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders. — Henry David Thoreau

It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it. — Henry David Thoreau

Wealth can’t buy heath, but heath can buy wealth. — Henry David Thoreau