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Walden

by Henry David Thoreau

Walden by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau, is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and manual for self-relianc

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“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.”

— Henry David Thoreau, amazon.com

Tagged: Identity, self, lost

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

— Henry David Thoreau, amazon.com

Tagged: seeing, looking vs. seeing, Looking, witnessing, beholding

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”

— Henry David Thoreau, amazon.com

Tagged: Truth, Honesty

“I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.”

— Henry David Thoreau, amazon.com

Tagged: Solitude, solitary, Isolated, Isolation, solitary enjoyment

“I desire to speak somewhere without bounds.”

— Henry David Thoreau, amazon.com

Tagged: Speaking Up

“I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”

— Henry David Thoreau, literaturepage.com

Tagged: Autumn, october, Fall, Happiness

“However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is.”

— Henry David Thoreau, amazon.com

Tagged: Obstacles, emotions

“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. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal,…”

— Henry David Thoreau, amazon.com

Tagged: Obstacles

“To be a philosopher is to solve some of the problems of life–not only theoretically but practically.”

— Henry David Thoreau, amazon.com

Tagged: Conclusion

“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. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise…”

— Henry David Thoreau, amazon.com

Tagged: Literary Fame

“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.”

— Henry David Thoreau, amazon.com

Tagged: Literary Fame

“You must not only aim right, but draw the bow with all your might.”

— Henry David Thoreau, amazon.com

Tagged: Aim, Motivational

“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”

— Henry David Thoreau, amazon.com

Tagged: Earth, Heaven

“Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.”

— Henry David Thoreau, amazon.com

Tagged: Life

“You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else. As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.”

— Henry David Thoreau, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, charity

“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”

— Henry David Thoreau, amazon.com

Tagged: How To Think, Nature

“We need the tonic of wildness... At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.”

— Henry David Thoreau, amazon.com

Tagged: How To Think, Nature

“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, amazon.com

Tagged: Woods, Nature, Live With Meaning

“I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all encumbrances, and reduce…”

— Henry David Thoreau, walden.org

Tagged: Minimalism & Simplicity, Philosophy