Henry David Thoreau

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

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

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

"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."

"When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest."

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

"Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty."

"Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around."

"Never look back unless you are planning to go that way."

"I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society."

"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."

"Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. what a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate."

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

"There is no remedy for love but to love more."

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

"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."

"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."

"To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust."

"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."

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