Henry David Thoreau

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."

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

"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."

"A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend."

"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."

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

"Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams."

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

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."

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

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

"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."

"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."

"It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak and another to hear."

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

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

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

"He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair."

"Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live."

"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."