You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, there is no other life but this.

Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Topics: Life Quotes

A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry...

A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry...

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...

Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.

Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they...

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they...

It is never too late to give up your prejudices

It is never too late to give up your prejudices

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism...

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism...

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and...

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and...

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

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...

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

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 law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the...

The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the...

Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could...

Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could...

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

Being is the great explainer.

Being is the great explainer.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who...

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who...

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...

A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are...

A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are...

On the highway of life, we most often recognize happiness out of the rear view...

On the highway of life, we most often recognize happiness out of the rear view...