Henry David Thoreau

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.
― Henry David Thoreau

Be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.
― Henry David Thoreau

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
― Henry David Thoreau

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.
― Henry David Thoreau

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.
― Henry David Thoreau

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
― Henry David Thoreau