LEONARD BERNSTEIN Quotes

 "Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time … The wait is simply too long." ~Leonard Bernstein 

“Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.” ~Leonard Bernstein 

FRANK TIBOLT - INSPIRATION

  "We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action." ~Frank Tibolt

RICHARD KEMPH - QUOTES

 "Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired." ~Richard Kemph

Quotes on MINDS

 "A closed mind is like a closed book just like a block of wood." ~Chinese Proverb

"A desire of knowledge is the natural feeling of mankind; and every human being, whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge." ~Dr. Samuel Johnson

"A library is home to hungry minds in search for knowledge." ~Leah C. Dancel,  July 14, 2021 ~•✿•~ ~•✿•~

“A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.” ~Frank Zappa, Singer-Songwriter

"A mind that is stretched by new experience can never go back to its old dimensions." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

"A quiet mind is able to hear intuition over fear." ~Deborah King

"A warm heart and a grateful mind attract beautiful things." ~Love in Action

"Adorn your mind with knowledge, not your body with jewels." ~Chinese Proverb

"Beautiful faces are everywhere, but you have to struggle to find a beautiful heart." ~Anon

"Beautiful minds inspire others." ~Anon

"Beauty cleans the mind." ~Matt Haig

“Books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.” ~Plato

"Breath sweeps mind." ~Jakusho Kwong 

“Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation." ~Eileen Caddy

"Clouds in the sky very much resembles  the thoughts in our minds. Both changes perpetually from one second to the other." ~Mehmet Murat Ildan 

"Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." ~Anna Freud (1895-1982)

"Dare to stand before those you fear and speak your mind,  even if your voice shakes. " ~Maggie Khun 

“Don’t send your mind on things you don’t possess as if they were yours, but count the blessings you actually possess and think how much you would desire them if they weren’t already yours. But watch yourself, that you don’t value these things to the point of being troubled if you should lose them.” ~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Educate your mind with the treasures of love, care and harmony that will maintain peace.” ~Deepti Shakya

"Every person from your past lives as a shadow in your mind. Good or bad, they all helped you write the story of your life, and shaped the person you are today." ~Doe Zantamata

"Exercise not only changes your body . It changes your mind , your attitude and your mood." ~Ashleigh Rachael Maw, March  2, 2021

"Fill your mind with God's word and you will have no room for satan's lies." ~Christian Today

"For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is Nature's finest balm." ~Edwin Way Teale

"For the mind to be still, the body must be disciplined." ~The Ninth Gyalwa Karmapa

“Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking..”  ~Leo Tolstoy

"Gardening in the mind is a gentle vice with an impetus of its own; it may not be as potent as actually making one, but there is a whole different threshold where gardening in the head can fill our winter tranquility with unrest." ~Mirabel Osler

"Garner up pleasant thoughts in your mind, for pleasant thoughts makes pleasant lives." ~John Wilkins

"Go inside yourself and listen to your body, because your body will never lie to you. Your mind will play tricks, but the way you feel in your heart, in your guts, is the truth." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind." ~Marcel Proust

"I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing." ~Bette Midler

"I believe that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about. I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for this is one thing which can by inspection destroy such a system. Surely I can understand this, and I hate it and I will fight against it to preserve the one thing that separates us from the uncreative beasts. If the glory can be killed, we are lost." ~John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.” ~Mahatma Gandhi

“If we could read the minds of other animals we would find only truths.” ~A.D. Williams 

"If you want to know where your heart is, look to where your mind goes when it wanders." ~Begin with Yes

"It all begins and ends in your mind. What you give power to has power over you." ~Leon Brown

"It's not really our body who feels pain but our mind." ~Tomas Tacit

"It's okay to cry when there's too much on your mind. The clouds rain too when things get heavy." ~Amina Mehmood

"It takes a big heart to help shape little minds." ~Anon

"Joy is one of nature's greatest medicines. Joy is always healthy. A pleasant state of mind tends to bring abnormal conditions back to normal." ~Catherine Ponder

"Let your mind be quiet, realizing the beauty of the world, and all that you have within you and all that your heart desires will surely come to you; and God Himself will come and bend over and catch His own likeness in you." ~Anon 

"Luck favours the mind that is prepared." ~Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), French Bacteriologist

"Maybe the mind is waiting for you to choose so that it can have a rest." ~Mooji

"Memories are the most beautiful pictures our minds can paint and nothing can ever erase them." ~The Journey Home

"My mind still talks to you and my heart still looks for you, but my soul knows you're at peace." ~LLL

"Neither anger nor fear shall find lodging in your mind" ~Dekanawidah - Cherokee

“Once your mind stretches to a new level it never goes back to its original dimension” ~A P J Abdul Kalam

"One can only wonder how much POWER corrupts the minds of men that involved bloodshed." ~Leah C. Dancel 

"One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't." ~ George Bernard Shaw 

“One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.” ~Alfred Kazin

Australian Botanical Garden

Mt Annan, Camden NSW

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"Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world." ~Hans Margolius

"Our age has become so mechanical that this has also affected our recreation. People have gotten used to sitting down and watching a movie, a ball game, a television set. It may be good once in a while, but it certainly is not good all the time. Our own faculties, our imagination, our memory, the ability to do things with our mind and our hands–they need to be exercised. If we become too passive, we get dissatisfied." ~Maria von Trapp

"Our mind desires control, to know, to understand and to be right.  It is only a small part of reality,  yet so many people let it run their entire lives." ~Remi Sharon Pearson

"Our minds ... are riddled by confusion and doubt." ~Sogyal Rinpoche

"Our most important battles take place inside of us … in our minds, wills and emotions." ~Aging Gracefully

"Our only limitations are those we set up in our own minds." ~Napoleon Hill

"People who don't leave your mind are usually in your heart." ~Jewels of the Heart

"Photos capture our memories in print, but our memories are always with us in our minds." ~Catherine Pulsifer

“Place and a mind may interpenetrate till the nature of both is altered.” ~Nan Shepherd

"Quiten your mind. You'll never hear your soul over all that din." ~Sarah McCrum

"Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.” ~Desiderius Erasmus

"Road trips ... they take us to more places than just where our feet can take us... as the eyes see beyond the lands and the mind wanders beyond the fields...." ~Hedda Tady, April 25, 2021

"Sit in reverie and watch the changing colour of the waves that break the seashore of the mind." ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Softness starts in the mind and then filters through to the body." ~Mel Fleming

"Sometimes, the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine on standardised tests because they do not have standardised minds." ~Diane Ravitch

"Speak your mind even if your voice shakes."  ~Dame Maggie Smith,  1934-2024

"The camera is just a box. What's important it's what is in your mind." ~Bill Snyder

"The conditioned mind will often create feelings out of fear, and these should not be the guiding force in your life. Instead discover the deeper feelings that arise from Presence—the source of true intuition—and to let that guide your actions." ~Eckhart Tolle

"The creations of the mind are more numerous than specks of dust in a ray of sunlight." ~Milarepa

"The ego is a very limited belief system within the sleeping mind." ~James B. Cisneros

 "The eyes are useless when your mind is blind." ~Anon

"The grateful mind is constantly fixated upon the best. Therefore it tends to become the best. It takes the form or character from the best, and will receive the best." ~Wallace D. Wattles

"The greatest gift we can seek is peace of mind, to walk in balance, to respect all things." ~Elders (ONONDAGA)

"The heart and mind guides the hand that holds the pen, the brush or the shutter." ~Jadj Dancel

"The human mind is at best beyond understanding, that is the wonder of how we have been created. The complexity of our thought process is amazing and what we are achieving in the application of our mind in developing technology is incredible." ~Malcolm Rankin, Faith and Life (on Kasparov versus Deep Blue, IBM super chessplaying computer, February 1966 Chess Match)

"The mind is a wonderful  servant, but  a terrible master." ~Robin S. Sharma 

"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven." ~John Milton (1606-1674)

"The mind is like water. When it is turbulent it is difficult to see. When it is calm, everything becomes clear." ~Prasad Mahes 

"The mind is man’s faculty of thinking, reasoning and applying knowledge. It is our consciousness that starts in the brain and is manifested through our thoughts, actions, will, memories, imagination and emotions." ~Team Joey Yap

"The mind…is rarely so disturbed, but that the company of a friend will restore it to some degree of tranquility and sedateness." ~Adam Smith 

“The mind is the place where the soul goes to hide from the heart.” ~Michael Singer

"The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included. It's like the root of a tree. All a tree's fruit and flowers, branches and leaves depend on its root. If you nourish its root, a tree multiplies. If you cut its root, it dies. … Those who understand the mind reach enlightenment with minimum effort." ~Bodhidharma

"The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future." ~Joseph Conrad (1875-1924)

"The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark." ~Thomas Paine 

"The mind should be trained to be a servant of the heart. Logic should serve love. And then life can become a festival of lights." ~Osho

"The power of words can break or make a man, woman or child. Poems, in my view, are stories, products of thoughts, weaved into a smaller package. Prose can be your playground (it is mine)... that bridges into poetry, if the winds allow it. Allow the heart to pour, quieten the mind." ~Hedda Tady 

“The rain fluctuates between drizzle and torrential. It messes with your mind. It makes you think things will always be like this, never getting better, always letting you down right when you thought the worst was over.” ~Susane Colasanti, Waiting for You

"The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.” ~Friedriche Nietzsche

"The soul has been given its own ears to hear things mind does not understand." ~Rumi

"The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart, this you will build your life by, and this you will become." ~Anon

"There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength." ~Pat Riley

"There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age." ~Sophia Loren

“There is a waterfall in every dream. Cool and crystal clear, it falls gently on the sleeper, cleansing the mind and soothing the soul.” ~Virginia Alison

"There is something godly about hills and mountains, something cleansing about the rain, and it is only when birds sing, does a mind rest to get ready for the work ahead." ~Hedda Tady,  May 2, 2021

"There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own lonely mind, where none may reach and none may save." ~Daily Vibes

"To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear." ~Buddha

"To live more meaningfully we need to have a broader mind, an open-mind, and a simple mind. This summarises the meaning of a wise mind." ~Anon

"To meditate is to rest mind like forest." ~Gede Prama

"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to." ~Khalil Gibran

"Transformation begins in the mind. Counter the existing Culture." ~Aleph Haorh

“True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit. What sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.”. ~William Penn

"Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth." ~Leo Tolstoy

"We are shaped by our thoughts. We become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves." ~Buddha

"We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe." ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"We see the mind like a house, so if your house is on fire, you need to take care of the fire, not to go look for the person that made the fire. Take care of those emotions first; it’s the priority. Because anything that comes from a place of fear and anxiety and anger will only make the fire worse. Come back and find a place of calm and peace to cool the flame of emotion down." ~Phap Dung, Buddhist Monk

“What would be the significance of the candlelight, if there were no darkness? What would be the power of the stars over our minds, if there were no night?” ~C. JoyBell C.

"When you free the mind, you free the world, your world." ~Byron Katie

"When your mind is liberated, your heart floods with compassion." ~Thich Nhat Hanh

"Yes, the mind is receptive, but reason is not our only antenna. We also need our bodies, our emotions, our hearts, our nose, our ears, our eyes, our taste and our souls." ~Richard Rohr, The Naked Now

"You have no idea how long something you say can stay inside someone's mind." ~Scarlett Leithold

"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realise this, and you will find strength." ~Marcus Aurelius

"Your mind is a powerful thing. When you fill it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change." ~Positive Thoughts

"Your minds may now be likened to a garden, which will, if neglected, yield only weeds and thistles; but, if cultivated, will produce the most beautiful flowers, and the most delicious fruits." ~Dorothea Dix


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RELATED QUOTES

"A heart full of love and compassion is the main source of inner strength, willpower, happiness, and mental tranquility." ~Dalai Lama 

"Allow yourself to rest. Your soul speaks to you in the quiet moments in between your thoughts." ~Anon

“Brain development is important, but the biggest piece of intelligence is your heart. It’s vital that when educating our children’s brains we do not neglect to educate their hearts." ~Dalai Lama

"Choose your thoughts. Like you would choose flowers for a bouquet." ~Happiness Convert

"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.” ~Alexander Graham Bell

"Follow your heart, but take your brain with you." ~Alfred Adler

"Happiness is never found outside of us. It is not found in possessions or wealth. Happiness is always and only found within us. It is a state of mind." ~Fearless Soul

"How wonderful it is to be able to write someone a letter! To feel like conveying your thoughts to a person, to sit at your desk and pick up a pen, to put your thoughts into words like this is truly marvellous." ~Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

"I think nature's imagination is so much greater than man's,  she never going to let us relax." ~Richard Feynman   

"If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us." ~Anon

“If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.“ ~Roald Dahl

"If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hateyou." ~Don Marquis

"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” ~ Haruki Murakami

"If you want to know where your heart is, look where your mind wanders." ~Just A Kiss Away

"Imagine what the world would be like if we all spent a few minutes everyday thinking only kind thoughts." ~Katrina Mayer

"It's all about perception, that is how you look at it. Your own thoughts and outlook defines whether it is good or bad. And your definition determines your response." ~Stella Payton

"Keep,in mind that a broken heart is an open heart." ~Louise L. Hay and David Kessler

“Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.” ~Elbert Hubbard

“Learning gives creativity
Creativity leads to thinking
Thinking provides knowledge
Knowledge makes you great.”
~A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

"Look at the sky as often as possible and your thoughts will become light and clear." ~Saint Seraphim of Sarov

"Look past your thoughts so you may drink the pure nectar of this moment." ~Rumi

"Look to the people whose main desire is to nurture their minds and their inner spirits. They do not fuss, complain, or crave either solitude or a crowd. And, most important of all, they will live without either striving or avoiding, and will not care whether their lives are long or short." ~Marcus Aurelius

"Never allow another to take the hopes from your heart, the dreams from your mind, or the goodness from your soul." ~ A.D. Williams

"Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind, I tell you. In fact, others seem to be bothering you, but it is not others. It is your own mind." ~Dalai Lama

"Our brains are wired for connection, but trauma rewires them for protection. That's why healthy relationships are difficult for wounded people." ~Ryan North

“Silence has a mysterious calming effect, allowing your soul to be at peace with your thoughts.” ~A.D. Williams

"Singing is meditation that massages the heart and brings your mind into the magic of the present moment." ~Woman with A Dream

"Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds." ~Anon

"Speak boldly and with intellect. Never hush your voice for someone's comfort. Speak your mind. Make people uncomfortable." ~Anon

"Tea tempers the spirit and harmonises the minds; dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness." ~Lu Yu

"The barn is a silent companion to one’s thoughts, dreams, and introspections." ~Jack Bell Photography 

"The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas." ~Dr. Linus Pauling

"The conditioned mind will often create feelings out of fear, and these should not be the guiding force in your life. Instead discover the deeper feelings that arise from Presence—the source of true intuition—and to let that guide your actions." ~Eckhart Tolle

"The control of the palate is a valuable aid for the control of the mind." ~Mahatma Gandhi

“The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.” ~Charles Browder on Creativity

"The heart is the bridge between the mind and the soul. First get out of your mind and into your heart space. From there it is a quick jump into your soul." ~Neale Donald Walsch

“The logic of dreams is superior to the one we exercise while awake. In dreams the mind at last finds its courage: it dares what we do not dare.” ~Etel Adnan, Poet, painter, philosopher 

(who hasn't ceased making into her 90s, on dreaming and creativity.)

"The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting." ~Confucius

"The quiet mind is a clear mirror, reflecting the truth within." ~Rumi 

"The sign of a healthy mind is not denial, but facing the cold, hard truths head on. Courage requires critical thinking and acting on new knowledge despite fear." ~Jake Colebrook

“The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind” ~Caroline Myss

"The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts." ~Trudy Vesotsky

"The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away." ~Dr. Linus Pauling

"There is no greater wealth in this world than peace of mind." ~from Positive Outlooks

"There is no greater weapon than a prepared mind." ~Zhuge Liang

“Thinking is the capital, Enterprise is the way, Hard Work is the solution” ~A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Ignited Minds: Unleashing the Power Within India

“Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life.” ~Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

"Thoughts are not a necessity; most of the time they are just distractions that obstruct your inner vision." ~Remez Sasson

“Thoughts become things. If you see it in your mind, you will hold it in your hand.” ~Bob Froctor

"Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things." ~Napoleon Hill

"Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth." ~Leo Tolstoy

"We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows, like a shadow that never leaves." ~Buddha 

"What is more deadly? A gun or a thought? A gun gives you the opportunity but a thought pulls the trigger." ~a. b.

"When you let your mind wander, make sure it's to a beautiful place." ~Doe Zantamata

"Where does your mind take you when you want happiness?" ~Lynne Taylor

"You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant." ~Harlan Ellison

"You will never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart." ~Anon

"Your mind is a garden." ~Whitney Hess 

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WILLIAM FEATHER Quotes

"Be considerate; you may need help yourself some day." ~William Feather

‪"Improvement of one's economic position is helped more by cool persistence than by hot enthusiasm." ~William Feather‬

"Do each daily task the best we can; act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us." ~William Feather

“Here is the secret of inspiration:tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you." ~William Feather

"One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure." ~William Feather

“Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.” ~William Feather

"Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it." ~William Feather

"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go." ~William Feather

"The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations." ~William Feather

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HENRY DAVID THOREAU Quotes

"A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature." ~Henry David Thoreau, American Writer, Philosopher, and Naturalist (1817-1862)

"A man [is] commonly a locked-up chest to us, to open whom, unless we have the key of sympathy, will make our hearts bleed." ~Henry David Thoreau in The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861

"A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will." ~Henry David Thoreau

"A person is rich in proportion to the things he or she can afford to let alone." ~Henry David Thoreau

"Again we took to the beach for another day, walking along the shore of the resounding sea, determined to get it into us. We wished to associate with the ocean until it lost the pond-like look which it wears to a countryman." ~Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist.

"All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant." ~Henry David Thoreau (lifted from Susan Deborah) 

"All good things are wild and free." ~Henry David Thoreau 

“All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.” ~Henry David Thoreau 

"All our lives want a suitable background... Character always secures for itself this advantage, and is thus distinct and unrelated to near or trivial objects whether things or persons." ~Henry David Thoreau

"All that was ripest and fairest in the wildness and the wild man is preserved and transmitted to us in the strain of the wood thrush. It is the mediator between barbarism and civilization. It is unrepentant as Greece." ~Henry David Thoreau

"All this worldly wisdom was once the amiable heresy of some wise man." ~Henry David Thoreau

"Always maintain a kind of summer even in the middle of winter." ~Henry David Thoreau

"An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day." ~Henry David Thoreau

"Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it." ~Henry David Thoreau

"Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one." ~Henry David Thoreau from Civil Disobedience (1849)

"As a single footstep will not make a path on earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives." ~Henry David Thoreau

"As I come over the hill, I hear the wood thrush singing his evening lay. This is the only bird whose note affects me like music, affects the flow and tenor of my thoughts, my fancy and imagination. It lifts and exhilarates me. It is inspiring. It is a medicative draught to my soul. It is an elixir to my eyes and a fountain of youth to all my senses. It changes all hours to an eternal morning. It banishes all trivialness. It reinstates me in my dominion, makes me the lord of creation..." ~Henry David Thoreau

"As I love nature, as I love singing birds, and gleaming stubble, and flowing rivers, and morning and evening, and summer and winter, I love thee, my Friend."  ~Henry David Thoreau

"Be not simply good; be good for something." ~Henry David Thoreau

"Be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be." ~Henry David Thoreau

"Being free, being with nature, being yourself..." ~Henry David Thoreau

"Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes." ~Henry David Thoreau

“Direction is more important than speed. We are so busy looking at our speedometers that we forget the milestone.” ~Henry David Thoreau

"Dreams are the touchstones of our character." ~Henry David Thoreau

"Each new year is a surprise to us. We find that we had virtually forgotten the note of each bird, and when we hear it again it is remembered like a dream, reminding us of a previous state of existence...The voice of nature is always encouraging." ~Henry David Thoreau

"Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself." ~Henry David Thoreau 

"Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve." ~Henry David Thoreau

"Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody." ~Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

"Friends…They cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams." ~Henry David Thoreau

"Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth." ~Henry David Thoreau

"Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness." ~Henry David Thoreau

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." ~Henry Thoreau

"Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other." ~Henry David Thoreau

"Goodness is the only investment that never fails." ~Henry David Thoreau

“He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.” ~ Henry David Thoreau

"Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads." ~Henry David Thoreau

"How vain it is to sit down and write when you have not stood up to live." ~Henry David Thoreau

 “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 think. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, difficult as it is...

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 look toward another land. There is no other land;

there is no other life but this.” ~Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

"Humility, like darkness, reveals the heavenly lights. ~Henry David Thoreau

"I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoy,ent." ~Henry David Thoreau

"I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government." ~Henry David Thoreau

"I had three chairs in my house: one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society." ~Henry David Thoreau

"I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized." ~Henry David Thoreau

“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.” ~Henry David Thoreau

"I long for wildness, a nature which I cannot put my foot through, woods where the wood thrush forever sings, where the hours are early morning ones, and there is dew on the grass, and the day is forever unproved..." ~Henry David Thoreau

"I make myself rich by making my wants few." ~Henry David Thoreau

"I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude." ~Henry David Thoreau from BrainyQuote

"I saw a delicate flower had grown two feet high between the horses' feet and the wheel track. An inch more to right or left had sealed its fate, or an inch higher. Yet it lived to flourish and never knew the danger incurred." ~Henry David Thoreau

"I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it." ~Henry David Thoreau

"I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least – and it is commonly more than that – sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements." ~Henry David Thoreau

"I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees." ~Henry David Thoreau

"I want to go soon and live away by the pond, where I shall hear only the wind whispering among the reeds. It will be success if I shall have left myself behind. But my friends ask what I will do when I get there. Will it not be employment enough to watch the progress of the seasons?" ~Henry David Thoreau

"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

"I will wander further from what I have called my home - to the home which is forever inviting me. In such an hour the freedom of the woods is offered me, and the birds sing my dispensation. In dreams the links of life are united: we forget that our friends are dead; we know them as old." ~Henry David Thoreau

"If a man does not keep the pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured far away. ~Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

"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. 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. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." ~Henry David Thoreau

"If the day and night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet scented herbs, more elastic, more starry, more immortal - that is your success." ~Henry David Thoreau

"If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment." ~Henry David Thoreau

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. That is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." ~ Henry David Thoreau

"In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and the future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line." ~Henry David Thoreau

"In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood." ~Henry David Thoreau

"It has come to this, - that the lover of art is one, and the lover of nature another, though true art is but the expression of our love of nature. It is monstrous when one cares but little about trees and much about Corinthian columns, and yet this is exceedingly common." ~Henry David Thoreau, Journal, October 9, 1957

"It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise." ~Henry David Thoreau

Germany courtesy by Precy Bierbaum
"It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man" ~Henry David Thoreau

"It is never too late to give up your prejudices." ~Henry David Thoreau

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." ~Henry David Thoreau

"It is remarkable how many creatures live wild and free though secret in the woods." ~Henry David Thoreau

"It is the luxurious and dissipated who set the fashions which the herd so diligently follow." ~From "Walden" by Henry David Thoreau

"It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination." ~Henry David Thoreau

"It is true, I never assisted the sun materially in his rising; but, doubt now, it was of the last importance only to be present at it." ~Henry David Thoreau

"It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady." ~Henry David Thoreau

"It takes two to speak truth, one to speak and another to hear." ~Henry David Thoreau

"Keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams." ~Henry David Thoreau

"Kindness to children, love for children, goodness to children - these are the only investments that never fail." ~Henry David Thoreau

"Let a man take time enough for the most trivial deed." ~Henry David Thoreau

"Let me live where I will, on this side is the city, on that the wilderness, and ever I am leaving the city more and more and withdrawing into the wilderness. I should not lay so much stress on this fact if I did not believe that something like this is prevailing tendency of my countrymen..." ~Henry David Thoreau

"Live free, child of the mist,—and with respect to knowledge we are all children of the mist." ~Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

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“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.” ~from WALDEN by Henry David Thoreau

"Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around." ~Henry David Thoreau

"Looking through the stars to see if I could see God through them." ~Henry David Thoreau

"Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame." ~Henry David Thoreau

"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after." ~Henry David Thoreau

"Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science." ~Henry David Thoreau

"Men say they know many things;
But lo! they have taken wings, -
The arts and sciences,
And a thousand appliances;
The wind that blows
Is all that any body knows."
~Henry David Thoreau

"Morning brings back the heroic ages. I was as much affected by the faint hum of a mosquito making its invisible and unimaginable tour through my apartment at earliest dawn, when I was sitting with door and windows open, as I could be by as I could be by any trumpet that ever sang of fame." ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden

"Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me." ~ Henry David Thoreau

"Most of the luxuries, and manty of the so-called comforts, of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind." ~Henry David Thoreau

"Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life." ~Henry David Thoreau

"My profession is to always find God in nature." ~Henry David Thoreau

"Nature is a tonic." ~Henry David Thoreau

“Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.” ~Henry David Thoreau

"Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain." ~Henry David Thoreau, In Senses/Sight

"Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves." ~Henry David Thoreau.

"Never look back unless you are planning to go that way" ~Henry David Thoreau

"Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short." ~Henry David Thoreau

“Not till we are lost — in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations. Nature puts no questions and answers none which we mortal ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.” ~Henry David Thoreau

"Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves." ~Henry David Thoreau

“Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.” ~Henry David Thoreau in a letter to Mrs. Emerson

"On tops of mountains, as everywhere to hopeful souls, it is always morning." ~Henry David Thoreau

"One world at a time." ~Henry David Thoreau

"Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star." ~Henry David Thoreau from WALDEN (1854)

"Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better." ~Henry David Thoreau

"Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, simplify." ~Henry David Thoreau 

"Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them." ~Henry David Thoreau

"Our thoughts and sentiments answer to the revolutions of the seasons, as two cog-wheels fit into each other. We are conversant with only one point of contact at a time, from which we receive a prompting and impulse and instantly pass to a new season or point of contact. A year is made up of a certain series and number of sensations and thoughts which have their language in nature. Now I am ice, now I am sorrel. Each experience reduces itself to a mood of the mind." ~Henry David Thoreau

Grabbed from Look Out Echo Point

"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake." ~Henry David Thoreau

"Plainly the fox belongs to a different order of things from that which reigns in the village. Our courts, though they offer a bountry for his hide, and our pulpits, though they draw many a moral from his cunning, are in few senses contemporary with his free forest life." ~Henry David Thoreau

"Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence." ~Henry David Thoreau

"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth." ~Henry David Thoreau

"Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all." ~Henry David Thoreau

"Seldom that you can have a good fortune and a good sense ..." ~Henry David Thoreau

"Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself?" ~Henry David Thoreau

"So behave that the odor of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere, that when we behold or scent a flower, we may not be reminded how inconsistent your deeds are with it; for all odor is but one form of advertisement of a moral quality, and if fair actions had not been performed, the lily would not smell sweet. The foul slime stands for the sloth and vice of man, the decay of humanity; the fragrant flower that springs from it, for the purity and courage which are immortal." ~Henry David Thoreau

"Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk." ~Henry David Thoreau

"Strange that so few ever come to the woods to see how the pine lives and grows and spires, lifting its evergreen arms to the light, -- to see its perfect success..." ~Henry David Thoreau

"Surely joy is the condition of life." ~Henry David Thoreau

"That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest." ~Henry David Thoreau

"The beauty in man could only be preserved if we also preserve the beauty in nature." ~Henry David Thoreau

"The blue-bird carries the sky on his back." ~Henry David Thoreau

"The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men." ~Henry David Thoreau

"The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunlight." ~Henry David Thoreau

"The language of friendship is not words but meanings." ~Henry David Thoreau

"The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star." ~Henry David Thoreau

"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready." ~Henry David Thoreau

"The man whose horse trots a mile in a minute does not carry the most important messages." ~Henry David Thoreau

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation." ~from WALDEN by Henry David Thoreau (WALDEN was first published on this day in 1854.)

"The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?" ~Henry David Thoreau

"The perception of beauty is a moral test." ~Henry David Thoreau

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

"The question is not what you look at—but how you look and whether you see." ~Henry David Thoreau

"The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness." ~Henry David Thoreau

"The world is but a canvas to the imagination." ~Henry David Thoreau

"The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them." ~Henry David Thoreau

"There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers. Yet it is admirable to profess because it was once admirable to live. To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust." ~from WALDEN by Henry David Thoreau

"There can be no very black misery to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still." ~Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

"There is no remedy for love but to love more." ~Henry David Thoreau

"There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself." ~Henry David Thoreau

"There seem to be two sides of this world, presented us at different times, as we see things in growth or dissolution, in life or death. For seen in the eye of the poet, as God sees them, all things are alive and beautiful; but seen with the historical eye, or eye of the memory, they are dead and offensive. If we see Nature as pausing, immediately all mortifies and decays; but seen as progressing, she is beautiful." ~Henry David Thoreau, Journal, March 13, 1842

"These are true mornings of creation, original and poetic days, not mere repetitions of the past. There is no lingering of yesterday's fogs, only such a mist as might have adorned the first morning." ~Henry David Thoreau

"Things do not change; we change." ~Henry David Thoreau

"This world is but canvas to our imaginations." ~Henry David Thoreau

“To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of the arts.” ~Henry David Thoreau on Quality

"To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning." ~Henry David Thoreau

"Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbours." ~Henry David Thoreau

"To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts." ~Henry David Thoreau

"True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance." ~Henry David Thoreau

“Truths and roses have thorns about them.” ~Henry David Thoreau

"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison." ~Henry David Thoreau

"Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?" ~from "Civil Disobedience" (1849) by Henry David Thoreau

"Waves of serene life pass over us from time to time like flakes of sunlight over the fields in cloudy weather." ~Henry David Thoreau

"We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than we stay in our chambers." ~Henry David Thoreau

"We do not enjoy poetry unless we know it to be poetry." ~Henry David Thoreau

"We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn." ~Henry David Thoreau

"We need the tonic of wildness..."  ~Henry David Thoreau

"We were born to succeed, not to fail." ~Henry David Thoreau

"Wealth is the ability to fully experience life." ~Henry David Thoreau

"What a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates his fate." ~Henry David Thoreau

"What is called eloquence in the forum is commonly found to be rhetoric in the study. The orator yields to the inspiration of a transient occasion, and speaks to the mob before him, to those who can hear him; but the writer, whose more equable life is his occasion, and who would be distracted by the event and the crowd which inspire the orator, speaks to the intellect and heart of mankind, to all in any age who can understand him." ~Henry David Thoreau

"When a dog runs at you, whistle for him." ~Henry David Thoreau

"When my hoe tinkled against the stones, that music echoed to the woods and the sky, and was an accompaniment to my labor which yielded an instant and immeasurable crop" ~ Henry David Thoreau

"While men believe in the infinite, some ponds will be thought to be bottomless." ~Henry David Thoreau

"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment." ~Henry David Thoreau

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BIO

Henry David Thoreau’s account of his adventure in self-reliance on the shores of a pond in Massachusetts—part social experiment, part spiritual quest—is an enduringly influential American classic. In 1845, Thoreau began building a cabin at Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. The inspiring and lyrical book that resulted is both a record of the two years Thoreau spent in withdrawal from society and a declaration of personal independence. By virtue of its casual, offhandedly brilliant wisdom and the easy splendor of its nature writing, Thoreau’s account of his immersion in solitude has become a signpost for the modern mind in an increasingly bewildering world. Also included in this edition is Thoreau’s famous essay, “Civil Disobedience,” inspired by his anti-war and anti-slavery sentiments, which has influenced nonviolent resistance movements around the world ever since.

Henry David Thoreau died in Concord, Massachusetts, on this day May 6, 1862 (aged 44).

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