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

“I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.”

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”

“Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up.”

“Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.”

“The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.”

“Truth strikes us from behind and in the dark, as well as from before and in broad daylight.”

“You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given to know that we must die. And that is a great gift: the gift of selfhood. For we have only what we know we must lose, what we are willing to lose... That selfhood which is our torment, and our treasure, and our humanity, does not endure. It changes; it is gone, a wave on the sea. Would you have the sea grow still and the tides cease, to save one wave, to save yourself?”

“Dreamers are mocked as impractical. The truth is they are the most practical, as their innovations lead to progress and a better way of life for all of us.”

“Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.”

“You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself.”

““Life is 10 percent what you make it”

“Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.”