I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of a man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavour. It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and […]
I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another. Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)
With thinking we may be beside ourselves in a sane sense. By a conscious effort of the mind we can stand aloof from actions and their consequences, and all things, good and bad, go by us like a torrent. Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)
Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)
Man is the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself. Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)
The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive… We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the […]
If a man constantly aspires, is he not elevated? Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them — that it was a vain endeavor? Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)
