Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Energy

• To be awake is to be alive.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Live In The Moment, Energy

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.142

• First, there is the power of the Wind, constantly exerted over the globe... Here is an almost incalculable power at our disposal, yet how trifling the use we make of it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wind, Energy, Use

  Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.5, Rowman & Littlefield

• The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Optimism, Energy, Globes

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

• The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity is the flowering of man; and what are called Genius, Heroism, Holiness, and the like, are but various fruits which succeed it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Inspire, Energy

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.134, Graphic Arts Books

• We fritter away our energy and creativity . . .
  we get bogged down in the thick of thin things.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Creativity, Energy, Thick

• The scholar may be sure that he writes the tougher truth for the calluses on his palms. They give firmness to the sentence. Indeed, the mind never makes a great and successful effort, without a corresponding energy of the body.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Writing, Successful, Giving

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.517, Simon and Schuster

• Men should not labor foolishly like brutes, but the brain and the body should always, or as much as possible, work and rest together, and then the work will be of such a kind that when the body is hungry the brain will be hungry also, and the same food will suffice for both; otherwise the food which repairs the waste energy of the overwrought body will oppress the sedentary brain, and the degenerate scholar will come to esteem all food vulgar, and all getting a living drudgery.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Brain, Together

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