What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
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It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
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.
Things do not change; we change.
I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.
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.
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
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.
An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.
I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
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.
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
Men have become the tools of their tools.
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.
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