THOREAU SELF RELIANCE QUOTES

“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.”

“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.”

“The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.”

“I do not wish to be any more busy with my hands than is necessary. My head is handsomely employed with other matters.”

“Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.”

“Be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else’s idea of yourself should be.”

“Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.”

“I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.”

“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”

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

“It is not enough to be busy… the question is: what are we busy about?” DEEP HINDI QUOTES ABOUT LIFE

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

“Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.”

“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.”

“All good things are wild and free.”

“In the long run, men only hit what they aim for. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.”

“Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”

“It is never too late to give up your prejudices.”

“To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.”

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

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”