Thoreau Quotes

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves. – Henry David Thoreau

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. – Henry David Thoreau.

You must live In the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity In each moment. Fools stand on their Island opportunities and look toward another land. There Is no other land, there Is no other life but this. – Henry David Thoreau.

Our life Is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify. – Henry David Thoreau.

To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that Is true knowledge. – Henry David Thoreau.

If you have built castles In the air, your work need not be lost. That Is where they should be. Now put the foundation under them. – Henry David Thoreau.