Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Adults gifted with perceptivity are those who can hear the flowers singing within others not yet aware of their own gifts… [They are able to] understand the meaning of personal symbols and to see beyond the superficiality of a situation to the person beneath... People who are gifted at "seeing" often seem to have a touch of magic about them... Jane Austen, Langston Hughes, Anne Hutchinson, William Shakespeare, and Henry David Thoreau are all examples.

~ Dr. Deidre Lovecky Quotes from Article "Can You Hear the Flowers Singing?"
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If you have built your castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Not put the foundations under them.

~ Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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With all your science can you tell me how it is, and when it is, that light comes into the soul?

~ Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?

~ Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with 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 old laws will be expanded and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with license of a higher order of beings.

~ Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Birds never sing in caves.

~ Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

~ Henry David Thoreau Quotes from Walden
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I would say to my fellows, once for all, as long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail.

~ Henry David Thoreau Quotes from Walden
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To be awake is to be alive.

~ Henry David Thoreau Quotes from Walden
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplicity! Simplicity! Simplicity!

~ Henry David Thoreau Quotes from Walden
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