A Tribute to Walden and Mr. Thoreau

"However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names."

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined."

"To be awake is to be alive."

"A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature."

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."

"You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns."

"I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born."

"Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake."

"Let us first be as simple and well as Nature ourselves, dispel the clouds which hang over our brows, and take up a little life into our pores. Do not stay to be an overseer of the poor, but endeavor to become one of the worthies of the world."

"It's not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?"

"I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls."

"Be not simply good; be good for something."

"The question is not what you look at, but what you see."

"You must not only aim right, but draw the bow with all your might."

"The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?"

I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that 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."

"A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting. "

"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone."

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; there is where they should be. Now put foundations under them."

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. "

"To be awake is to be alive."

"Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience."