Life Quotes Quote by Henry David Thoreau — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“I was once reproved by a minister who was driving a poor beast to some meeting-house horse-sheds among the hills of New Hampshire, because I was bending my steps to a mountain-top on the Sabbath, instead of a church, when I would have gone farther than he to hear a true word spoken on that or any day. He declared that I was 'breaking the Lord's fourth commandment,' and proceeded to enumerate, in a sepulchral tone, the disasters which had befallen him whenever he had done any ordinary work on the Sabbath. He really thought that a god was on the watch to trip up those men who followed any secular work on this day, and did not see that it was the evil conscience of the workers that did it.”

“It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak and another to hear.”

“Sometimes, in a summer morning,”

“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”

“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dream, and endeavours to live the life which he had imagines, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”

“I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....”

“Into each life rain must fall but rain can be the giver of life and it is all in your attitude that makes rain produce sunshine.”

“I'm not sure if there's one right place I'm supposed to be, he said, but I know a couple of wrong places I'd give a second try in a heartbeat. ”

“In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.”

“To become vegetarian is to step towards the stream which leads to nirvana.”

“Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.”