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Living Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible…
- I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite…
- Even the facts of science may dust the mind by their dryness, unless they are ... rendered fertile by the dews of fresh and living…
- You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.
- This American government - what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing…
- As for the complex ways of living, I love them not, however much I practice them. In as many places as possible, I will get…
- In solitude especialy do we begin to appreciate the advantage of living with someone who can think.
- We live but a fraction of our lives.
- If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing…
- Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment…
- For more than five years I maintained myself thus solely by the labour of my hands, and I found, that by working about six weeks…
- One should be always on the trail of one's own deepest nature. For it is the fearless living out of your own essential nature that…
- We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its…
- A truly good book attracts very little favor to itself. It is so true that it teaches me better than to read it. I must…
- When we consider what, to use the words of the catechism, is the chief end of man, and what are the true necessaries and means…
- A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I…
- Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
- There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
- How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
- I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not…
- As to conforming outwardly and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that.
- You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and…
- I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?
- I mean that they (students) should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game, but earnestly live…
- On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that…
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- You go to London, you see a TV set in every cell and the sign up that all the officers must treat… — Joe Arpaio
- From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. — Arthur Ashe
- John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only… — Isaac Asimov