Get the Quote of the Day from Henry David Thoreau
Live the life you've dreamed.
The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've
imagined.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."
I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.
Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.
I stand in awe of my body.
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
There is no remedy for love but to love more.