“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”
“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”
“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”
“The world is but a canvas to our imagination.”
“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”
“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.”
“Things do not change; we change.”
“Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.”
“Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life.”
“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.”
“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.”
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.”
“This world is but a canvas to our imagination.”
“What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.”
“Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.”
“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.”
“I make myself rich by making my wants few.”
“Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you.”
“Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them.”
“As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.”
“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.”
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”
“If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal—that is your success.”
“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.”
“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.”
“The universe is wider than our views of it.”
“Only that day dawns to which we are awake.”
“What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?”
“An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.”
“Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.”
“A lake is the landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature.”
“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.”
“Nature is full of genius, full of divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.”
“Dreams are the touchstones of our character.”
“Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.”
“There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.”
“It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.”
“Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mold myself?”
“I had three chairs in my house: one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.”
“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.”
“Man’s capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedent.”
“Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.”
“Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.”
“Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?”