“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.” Henry David Thoreau
“As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.” 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
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” Henry David Thoreau ImportantKnowledgeWiseAchieveGoals
“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
“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.” Henry David Thoreau LifePriceAnythingAmountExchange
“What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.” Henry David Thoreau
“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.” Henry David Thoreau
“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.” Henry David Thoreau WordsFriendshipLanguageMeanings
“There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.” Henry David Thoreau
“True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.” Henry David Thoreau
“Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.” Henry David Thoreau
“If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. Henry David Thoreau” 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 foundations under them.” Henry David Thoreau
“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.” Henry David Thoreau
“Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?” Henry David Thoreau
“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.” Henry David Thoreau
“In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.” Henry David Thoreau
“Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.” Henry David Thoreau
“I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.” Henry David Thoreau
