Henry David Thoreau

The soul grows by subtraction, not addition.

Henry David Thoreau

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

Henry David Thoreau

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Henry David Thoreau

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction.

Henry David Thoreau

To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.

Henry David Thoreau

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

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

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

Henry David Thoreau

A gun will give you the body, not the bird.

Henry David Thoreau