"We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success."
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Henry David Thoreau
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Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
"He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair."
"The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend."
"I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society."
"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."
"On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world."
"Never look back unless you are planning to go that way."
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
"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."
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined."
"It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak and another to hear."
"Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty."
"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."
"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives."
"The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them."
"We are constantly invited to be who we are."
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined."
"Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams."
"The language of friendship is not words but meanings."
"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake."