January 2011
70 posts
“When it’s time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.”
– Henry David Thoreau (via yeatsofhell)
“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”
– Henry David Thoreau (via withamodelsmile)
justpartoftheuniverse:
“In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial.”
- Henry David Thoreau
“To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a...”
– Thoreau (via zeitvox)
“You know about a person who deeply interests you more than you can be told. A...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via withamodelsmile)
“He knew the country like a fox or a bird, and passed through it as freely by...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thoreau (via ralphwaldoemerson)
“Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it will elude...”
– Thoreau (via serendipitydoo)
“The penny-post is, commonly, an institution through which you seriously offer a...”
– “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For” by Henry David Thoreau (via jessicaagee)
“The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as...”
– Henry David Thoreau’s Walden (via zejoo)
“In idleness I am of no thickness, I am thinnest wafer.”
– Thoreau
“I make my own time. I make my own terms.”
– Thoreau
“How often must one feel, as he looks back on his past life, that he has gained a...”
– Thoreau
“If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, neglecting my...”
– Thoreau
“It is always essential that we love to do what we are doing, do it with heart.”
– Thoreau
“He is not poor, for he does not want riches.”
– Thoreau
“I love Nature partly BECAUSE she is not man, but a retreat from him. None of his...”
– Thoreau
“I love Nature partly BECAUSE she is not man, but a retreat from him. None of his...”
– Thoreau
“Ah, how I have thriven on solitude and poverty!”
– Thoreau
“Ah, how I have thriven on solitude and poverty!”
– Thoreau
“There will be plenty of room in this world, if every man will mind his own...”
– Thoreau
“There will be plenty of room in this world, if every man will mind his own...”
– Thoreau
“Nature does not cast pearls before swine. There is just as much beauty visible...”
– Thoreau
“Nature does not cast pearls before swine. There is just as much beauty visible...”
– Thoreau
“What is often called poverty, but which is a simpler and truer relation to...”
– Thoreau
“The best you can write will be the best you are.”
– Thoreau
“The best you can write will be the best you are.”
– Thoreau
“Many a day spent on the hilltops waiting for the sky to fall, that I might catch...”
– Thoreau
“Many a day spent on the hilltops waiting for the sky to fall, that I might catch...”
– Thoreau
“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.”
– Thoreau
“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.”
– Thoreau
“Your gentlemen, they are all alike. They utter their opinions as if it was not a...”
– Thoreau
“Your gentlemen, they are all alike. They utter their opinions as if it was not a...”
– Thoreau