Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Topics: Henry David Thoreau Quotes

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in...

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in...

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay...

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay...

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when...

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when...

Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.

Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.

Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.

Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the...

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the...

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let...

I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let...

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer,...

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer,...

What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to...

What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to...

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

If... the machine of government... is of such a nature that it requires you to...

If... the machine of government... is of such a nature that it requires you to...

The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain,...

The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain,...

It takes two to speak truth, one to speak and another to hear.

It takes two to speak truth, one to speak and another to hear.

I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give...

I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give...

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction

This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction

Life does not require us to make good; it asks only that we give our...

Life does not require us to make good; it asks only that we give our...

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing...

Experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing...

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.