I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
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If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essentials 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.
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Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.
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Henry David Thoreau
(1817-62) American author and philosopher
(1817-62) American author and philosopher
3 comments:
Great Thoreau quotes. Along the same theme is this one I enjoy:
"Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing." (Oliver Wendell Holmes)
"...if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."
Kinda says it all to me. Thanks, Tammy ((hugs))
Awesome quotes! (:
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