Henry David Thoreau

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on read more

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, there is no other life but this.

The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.

The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.

The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.

The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.

I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, read more

I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, read more

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.