David Thoreau Quotes To Live The Life Of Your Dreams

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

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

Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.

To be right is more honorable than to be law abiding.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

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.

He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.

A wise man has doubts even in his best moments. The real truth is always accompanied by hesitations.

We are more anxious to speak than to be heard