Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Live Life

• If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Walden ch. 18 (1854)

• To be awake is to be alive.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Live In The Moment, Energy

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

• If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Walden". Book by Henry David Thoreau, 1854.

• The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.21, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• 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 learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  Walden ch. 2 (1854)

• If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dream, Live Life, Ambition

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.31, Heron Dance Press

• The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Walden ch. 1 (1854)

• I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. . . . In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Dream, Live Life

  Walden ch. 18 (1854)

• In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sad, Live Life, Silence

  Henry David Thoreau, Carl Hovde (1980). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.278, Princeton University Press

• Life isn't about finding yourself; it's about creating yourself. So live the life you imagined.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Live Life, Creating Life, Finding Yourself

• 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?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Funny, Life, Dream

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2848, Delphi Classics

• Spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it, reminds me of the Englishman who went to India to make a fortune first, in order that he might return to England and live the life of a poet. He should have gone up garret at once.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Live Life, Order, Should Have

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.39, Xist Publishing

• Live the life you've dreamed.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Single, Short Life, Live Life

• Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspiring, Meaningful, Women

• Go confidently ... Live the life that you imagined.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Live Life

• Let go of the past and live the future . . . Live the life you imagined.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Letting Go, Live Life, Past

• Endeavor to live the life you have imagined.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Live Life, Endeavor

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