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Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him. — Henry David Thoreau

The opportunities of living are diminished in proportion as what are called the "means" are increased. — Henry David Thoreau

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself. — Henry David Thoreau

In my cheapest moments I am apt to think that it is n't my business to be "seeking the spirit," but as much its business to be seeking me. — Henry David Thoreau

Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old clothes. — Henry David Thoreau

What a healthy out-of-door appetite it takes to relish the apple of life, the apple of the world, then! — Henry David Thoreau

We cannot conceive of a greater difference than between the life of one man and that of another. — Henry David Thoreau

We are the subjects of an experiment which is not a little interesting to me. — Henry David Thoreau

And after reading Thoreau I felt how much I have lost by leaving nature out of my life. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. — Henry David Thoreau

I know a good woman who thinks that her son lost his life because he took to drinking water only. — Henry David Thoreau

When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip. — Henry David Thoreau

One is not born into the world to do everything but to do something. — Henry David Thoreau

One chair for solitude, two for friendship, and three for society. — Henry David Thoreau

The only wealth is life. — Henry David Thoreau

The future is too soon the past. So make perseverance your excellence and go confidently in the direction of your dreams. — Henry David Thoreau

I feel as if my life had grown more outward when I can express it. — Henry David Thoreau

The life of a wise man is most of all extemporaneous, for he lives out of an eternity which includes all time. — Henry David Thoreau

We do not live by justice, but by grace. — Henry David Thoreau

If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intent of doing you good, you should run for your life. — Henry David Thoreau

Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up. — Henry David Thoreau

Wealth is measured by the level of experience in all aspects of life — Henry David Thoreau

This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction. — Henry David Thoreau

Keep pace with the drummer you hear, however measured or far away. — Henry David Thoreau

Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows. — Henry David Thoreau

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life. — Henry David Thoreau

Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour. — Henry David Thoreau

Fresh curls spring from the baldest brow. There is nothing inorganic. — Henry David Thoreau

To live a better life,
this surely can be done. — Henry David Thoreau

The true harvest of my life is intangible - a little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched. — Henry David Thoreau

There is no scent in it so wholesome as that of the pines, nor any fragrance so penetrating and restorative as the life-everlasting in high pastures. — Henry David Thoreau

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify. — Henry David Thoreau

The art of life, of a poet's life, is, not having anything to do, to do something. — Henry David Thoreau

Inexpressibly beautiful appears the recognition by man of the least natural fact, and the allying his life to it. — Henry David Thoreau

To have made even one person's life a little better, that is to succeed. — Henry David Thoreau

Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. — Henry David Thoreau

The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as a cat does a mouse. — Henry David Thoreau

We have the St. Vitus' dance, and cannot possibly keep our heads still — Henry David Thoreau

The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after. — Henry David Thoreau

We live but a fraction of our lives. — Henry David Thoreau

Simple and sincere account of his own life, and not merely what he has heard of other men's lives; — Henry David Thoreau

That aim in life is highest which requires the highest and finest discipline. — Henry David Thoreau

Having reached the term of his natural life; Mwould it not be truer to say, Having reached the term of his unnatural life? — Henry David Thoreau

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat. — Henry David Thoreau

Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice. — Henry David Thoreau

Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? — Henry David Thoreau

The great art of life is how to turn the surplus life of the soul into life for the body. — Henry David Thoreau

Your religion is where your love is. — Henry David Thoreau

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life — Henry David Thoreau

Thus was my first year's life in the woods completed; and the second year was similar to it. I finally left Walden September 6th,1847. — Henry David Thoreau

Unpremeditated music is the true gauge which measures the current of our thoughts; the very undertow of our life's stream. — Henry David Thoreau

I am not afraid that I shall exaggerate the value and significance of life, but that I shall not be up to the occasion which it is. — Henry David Thoreau

A slight sound at evening lifts me up by the ears, and makes life seem inexpressibly serene and grand. It may be Uranus, or it may be in the shutter. — Henry David Thoreau

Is there any such thing as wisdom not applied to life? — Henry David Thoreau

Nothing could be worse, Thoreau wrote, than to come to the end of life and "discover that I had not lived. — Dale Salwak

I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers. — Henry David Thoreau

I love the broad margin to my life. — Henry David Thoreau

My life has been the poem I could have writ
But I could not both live and utter it. — Henry David Thoreau

It often happens that a man develops a deeper love and friendship with his pet cat or dog than he does with most of the other humans in his life. — Henry David Thoreau

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined. — Henry David Thoreau

As to conforming outwardly and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that. — Henry David Thoreau

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend. — Henry David Thoreau

Endeavor to live the life you have imagined. — Henry David Thoreau

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something. — Henry David Thoreau

In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead. — Henry David Thoreau

Find your eternity in each moment — Henry David Thoreau

We make needless ado about capital punishment,
taking lives, when there is no life to take. — Henry David Thoreau

Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house. — Henry David Thoreau

I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are? — Henry David Thoreau

One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living. — Henry David Thoreau

Do not despair of your life. You have force enough to overcome your obstacles. — Henry David Thoreau

In their daily life, all are braver than they know. — Henry David Thoreau

Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants. — Henry David Thoreau

No humane being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature, which holds its life by the same tenure that he does. — Henry David Thoreau

My life is like a stroll upon the beach, as near to the ocean's edge as I can go. — Henry David Thoreau

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life. — Henry David Thoreau

Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life. This life in the present. — Henry David Thoreau

What would human life be without forests, those natural cities? — Henry David Thoreau

In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts ... — Henry David Thoreau

My greatest skill in life has been to want but little — Henry David Thoreau

A thoroughbred business man cannot enter heartily upon the business of life without first looking into his accounts. — Henry David Thoreau

I love a broad margin to my life. — Henry David Thoreau

As long as I have the friendship of the sesasons life will never be a burden to me. — Henry David Thoreau

Unless we do more than simply learn the trade of our time, we are but apprentices, and not yet masters of the art of life. — Henry David Thoreau

Undoubtedly the very tedium and ennui which presume to have exhausted the variety and the joys of life are as old as Adam. — Henry David Thoreau

If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what you show him . he will be surrounded by grandeur. — Henry David Thoreau

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another? — Henry David Thoreau

This life we live is a strange dream, and I don't believe at all any account men give of it. — Henry David Thoreau

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run. — Henry David Thoreau

I never read a novel, they have so little real life and thought in them. — Henry David Thoreau

You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure. — Henry David Thoreau

I wish to learn what life has to teach, and not, when I come to die, discover that I have not truly lived. — Henry David Thoreau

None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty. — Henry David Thoreau

Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin! — Henry David Thoreau

I wanted to live deep and suck out the all the marrow of life ( ... ). — Henry David Thoreau

Let go of the past and live the future ... Live the life you imagined. — Henry David Thoreau

City life is millions of people being lonesome together. — Henry David Thoreau

Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows that surround it. We need the tonic of wildness ... — Henry David Thoreau

The constant abrasion and decay of our lives makes the soil of our future growth. — Henry David Thoreau

It's not worth our while to let our imperfections disturb us always. — Henry David Thoreau