Henry David Thoreau

"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake."

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined."

"Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them."

"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."

"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."

"It's not worth our while to let our imperfections disturb us always."

"This world is but a canvas to our imagination."

"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."

"Men are born to succeed, not to fail."

"Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience."

"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it."

"Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence."

"We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success."

"I am a happy camper so I guess I’m doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder."

"Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still."

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined."

"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 which he hears, however measured or far away."

"Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth."

"The language of friendship is not words but meanings."