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.

Quote by Henry David Thoreau

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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. There...

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. There...

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

I lose my respect for the man who can make the mystery of sex the...

I lose my respect for the man who can make the mystery of sex the...

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What...

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What...

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all...

I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all...

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

I belive that there is a subtile magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield...

I belive that there is a subtile magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield...

How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we might...

How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we might...

We live but a fraction of our lives

$We live but a fraction of our lives$

Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we...

Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we...

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work...

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work...

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...

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to...

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to...

I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and...

I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and...

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and...

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and...

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that...

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that...

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole,...

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole,...