Showing posts with label Henry David Thoreau. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Henry David Thoreau. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 28, 2022

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''I cannot make my days longer, so I strive to make them better.''

- Henry David Thoreau

Wednesday, December 14, 2022

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“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”

- Henry David Thoreau

Tuesday, November 29, 2022

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"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."

- Henry David Thoreau

Tuesday, June 21, 2022

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'The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard.''

-Henry David Thoreau

Friday, March 11, 2022

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“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”

- Henry David Thoreau

Thursday, February 17, 2022

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“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”

- Henry David Thoreau

Wednesday, January 5, 2022

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“None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.”

- Henry David Thoreau

Tuesday, December 28, 2021

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“Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.”

- Henry David Thoreau

Thursday, October 14, 2021

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“We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.”

- Henry David Thoreau

Sunday, January 19, 2014

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The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
-Henry David Thoreau

Tuesday, December 31, 2013

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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

Saturday, March 5, 2011

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The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.

-Henry David Thoreau

Sunday, December 26, 2010

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

-Henry David Thoreau

Thursday, May 14, 2009

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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

-Henry David Thoreau

Saturday, April 18, 2009

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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