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

Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where...

Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where...

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

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...

We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience...

We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience...

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago...

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago...

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe...

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe...

There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.

There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.

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

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

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or...

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or...

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show...

Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show...

Poverty - it is life near the bone, where it is sweetest

Poverty - it is life near the bone, where it is sweetest

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...

Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul is...

Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul is...

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

In the streets and in society I am almost invariably cheap and dissipated, my life...

In the streets and in society I am almost invariably cheap and dissipated, my life...

If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the...

If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the...

Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek...

Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek...

These are the tears The tears we shed This is the fear ~~...

These are the tears ~~ The tears we shed ~~ This is the fear ~~...

Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the...

Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the...

Time passes and you must move on Half the distance takes you twice as long...

Time passes and you must move on Half the distance takes you twice as long...

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find...

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find...