Inspirational Quotations by Henry David Thoreau
- I know no more encouraging fact
than the unquestionable ability of man
to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
- This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
- There is no value in life except
what you choose to place upon it and
no happiness in any place
except what you bring to it yourself.
- If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live the life which he had imagined,
he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
- We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal,
and then leap in the dark to our success.
- True friendship can afford true knowledge.
It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
- Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
Live the life you've imagined!
As you simplify your life, the laws of the Universe will be simpler,
solitude will not be solitude,
poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
- We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake,
not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.
- There is no rule more invariable than that we
are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.
- To enhance the quality of the day...
That is the highest of the arts.
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- Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it