more+notes

“What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.” -  Thoreau “[To be a philosopher is] to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.” -  Thoreau “The luxuriously rich are not simply kept comfortably warm, but unnaturally hot…” -  Thoreau http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/h/henry_david_thoreau.html “Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.” -  Thoreau “As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.” -  Thoreau “Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.” -  Thoreau http://www.transcendentalists.com/thoreau_quotes.htm “Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.” -  Thoreau “Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.” -  Thoreau “What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.” -  Thoreau http://thinkexist.com/quotes/henry_david_thoreau/ “For more than five years I maintained myself thus solely by the labour of my hands, and I found, that by working about six weeks in a year, I could meet all the expenses of living.” -  Thoreau “I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.” -  Thoreau http://thoreau.eserver.org/quotes.html “Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps.” -  Thoreau “You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.” -  Thoreau