Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.Henry David Thoreau
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.Henry David Thoreau
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.Henry David Thoreau
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?Henry David Thoreau
If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?Henry David Thoreau
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.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
I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.Henry David Thoreau
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.Henry David Thoreau
