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: The Present Quotes

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are......

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are......

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...

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

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

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it...

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it...

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...

In wilderness is the preservation of the world.

In wilderness is the preservation of the world.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth

Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream-world into reality.

Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream-world into reality.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns...

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns...

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of...

Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of...

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to...

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to...

Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while...

Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while...

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his...

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his...

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is...

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is...

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading...

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading...

Today expect something good to happen to you no matter what occurred yesterday. Realize the...

Today expect something good to happen to you no matter what occurred yesterday. Realize the...

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and...

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and...