"Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around."

- Henry David Thoreau

1 month ago 24 notes

"Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have even lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor."

- Henry David Thoreau

7 months ago 32 notes

"I hear many condemn these men because they were so few. When were the good and the brave ever in a majority."

- Henry David Thoreau

7 months ago 7 notes

"Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around."

- Henry David Thoreau

8 months ago 6 notes

"The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched."

- Henry David Thoreau (via bookmania)

9 months ago 528 notes

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

- Henry David Thoreau

9 months ago 5 notes

"As a single footstep will not make a path on the 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 (via creatingaquietmind)

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9 months ago 3,268 notes

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."

- Henry David Thoreau (via quote-book)

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10 months ago 1,458 notes