"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,
to front only the essential facts of life,and see if I could not learn
what it had to teach,
and not, when I came to die,
discover that I had not lived.”
“Many men go fishing all of their lives
without knowing
that it is not fish they are after.”
“If a man walks in the woods
for love of them half of each day,
he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer.
But if he spends his days as a speculator,
shearing off those woods
and making the earth bald before her time,
he is deemed an industrious
and enterprising citizen.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The most I can do for my friend
is simply be his friend.”
“Be not simply good;
be good for something.”
“It is never too late to give up your prejudices.”
“Never look back
unless you are planning to go that way.”
“The price of anything
is the amount of life you exchange for it.”
“There is no remedy for love
but to love more.”
“It’s not what you look at that matters,
it’s what you see.”
“Live your beliefs
and you can turn the world around.”
Henry David Thoreau
