Henry David Thoreau
  • I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

  • Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.

  • There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

  • I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

  • Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.