Henry David Thoreau

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

Live the life you've dreamed.

Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

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

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.