Thoreau's famous sayings

1. Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

2. What’s the use of a beautiful house if you don’t have a tolerable planet to put it on?

3. If a person and his companions do not keep pace, perhaps it is because he hears a different kind of drumbeat. Just let him go at his own pace, no matter how fast, slow or far he goes.

4. Live through every season; breathe the air, drink the water, taste the fruits, and let yourself feel their impact on you.

5. I like to be alone. I have never found a better companion than solitude.

6. Even in heaven, those who find fault will find their thorns.

7. You must live in the present, ride every wave, and find your eternity in every moment. Fools stand on their islands of opportunity looking for another piece of land. There is no other land, no other life but this life.

8. A morning walk is a blessing to the whole day.

9. Most luxuries and many so-called conveniences of life are not only indispensable, but also an obstacle to human progress.

10. The world is just a canvas for our imagination.

11. Those who have time to increase their spiritual wealth are the ones who truly enjoy comfort.

12. Virtue and good deeds are the only unbeatable investment.

13. When you pay too much attention to details, you are wasting your life bit by bit. If you really want to do something, just use your hands. If it's still not enough, just add your feet and you'll be able to do it. Simplify everything! simplify! Simplify it again!

14. Pursue your dreams with confidence! Live the life of your dreams. When you make your life simple, the laws of the universe will also become simple.

15. Our most real life is when we are awake and living in our dreams.

16. Human beings are like a buoy that cannot be sunk by any wind or wave.

17. Many people have fished for a lifetime, but they don’t know that their purpose of fishing is not for fish.

18. The necessities of the soul do not need to be purchased with money.

19. A city is a place where millions of people live alone together.

20. Human beings have become tools of their tools.

21. Only when we are lost can we begin to understand ourselves.

22. Don’t look back unless you want to walk back.

23. Books are the world’s precious wealth and an excellent legacy of the country and history.

24. Love is trying to turn the dream world into reality.

25. Instead of giving me love, money or fame, give me the truth.

26. The price of anything is equal to how much life you spend in exchange for it.

27. Our lives are spent on details, simple and simple.

28. Life has no value unless you choose and give it value. There is no happiness anywhere unless you bring happiness to yourself.

29. I would rather sit alone on a pumpkin than sit crowded on a velvet cushion.

30. Don’t hire someone who works for you for money.

31. The mind is always inexperienced.

32. Kindness is the only investment that will never fail.

33. What is beneficial to the body is labor, what is beneficial to the soul is soul work, and what is beneficial to both is working for others.

34. Excess wealth can only be exchanged for a luxurious life, but spiritual necessities do not need to be purchased with money.

35. Most people live in quiet despair. When they enter their graves, their songs have not yet been sung.

36. We can also hate people who we can love.

The rest are of no consequence to us.

37. Heaven is above our heads and also under our feet.

38. Sometimes being sick is good for your health.

39. Everyone is the craftsman of his own happiness.

40. We must learn to wake up again and keep ourselves awake, not with mechanical help, but with infinite expectations for dawn.

41. Only the combination of mind and nature can produce wisdom and imagination.

42. Excess wealth can only buy excess things.

43. Those who persistently pursue and get the greatest happiness from it are the successful ones.

44. Only a person who has time to increase the wealth of his soul can truly enjoy leisure.

45. If I really talk to Yun, you must not be offended.

46. Absolutely speaking, the more wealth there is, the less virtue there is.

47. A truly good book teaches me much more than just reading it. I had to quickly put it aside and live by it. I started by reading and ended up taking action.

48. The greatest gains and values ??are far from being appreciated by people. It’s easy to doubt their existence. We quickly forget about them. They are the highest reality. Perhaps the most astonishing and true facts are never communicated between people. The most real harvest of my daily life is as elusive and indescribable as the morning glow and dusk. That's a bit of stardust I caught, a rainbow.

49. Live out your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

50. When we are leisurely and wise, we know that only big and valuable things are permanent and absolutely exist, while subtle fears and pleasures are just shadows of reality.

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Quotes about Thoreau

1. When I wrote the following pages, or the following large amount of words, I was Living in solitude, in the woods, in Concord, Massachusetts, on the shore of Walden Pond, in a log cabin I built with my own hands, a mile from any neighbor, supporting myself solely by the labor of my hands. . I lived there for two years and two months. For now, I am once again a passer-by in civilized life. ----"Walden"

2. The best qualities of human nature are like the white frost on the skin of fruits, which can only be preserved through the most careful handling. ----"Walden"

3. I don't want to live in this restless, nervous, boring and busy 19th century. I would rather sit or stand quietly and let the time of the 19th century pass. It just goes by. ----"Walden Pond"

4. Poison may not be poisonous, and trauma may not be fatal. Sympathy is very fragile; it must be fleeting, and its appeals cannot be typed. ----"Walden"

5. Compared with young people, the elderly are not more suitable to be teachers, and they are not as good as young people, because the losses of the elderly are greater than their earnings. ----"Walden"

6. They spend the best time of their lives making money, just so that they can enjoy this questionable freedom in their twilight years. ----"Walden Pond"

7. Human beings live a life of quiet despair

8. Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

Never look back unless you want to walk back.

9. I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than sit on a velvet cushion and squeeze me and squeeze you. I would rather sit in an ox cart and roam around the world at will than take a high-end carriage on a tourist train to go to heaven and breathe the smog along the way. ----"Walden Pond"

10. What the elderly think you can't do, you work hard and find that you can do it.

Old people have old ways, newcomers have new ways. ----"Walden Pond"

11. Human beings need a home, which is a warm or comfortable place. The first is physical warmth, followed by emotional warmth. . ----"Walden"

12. It is not enough to be industrious, so are the ants. What are you industrious for?

13. Remember, a kind of Opportunities only come once. ----"Walden Pond"

14. Students should think more. They should not play with life, or purely study life, and ask society to pay a high price to support them. They should live passionately from beginning to end. ----"Walden Pond"

15. Nothing has changed, it is us who are changing. ----"Walden Pond"

16. We may not be able to arrive at our port within the calculated period, but we will maintain the correct route. ----"Walden"

17. Compared with our personal opinions, public opinion is a weak tyrant. ----"Walden"

18. How wealthy a person is depends on how many things he can let go

19. Our inventions are often beautiful Toys distract us and prevent us from focusing on serious things.

20. Every morning is an invitation to joy, making my life as simple as nature. ----"Walden"

21. He is neither great nor holy, he is just a slave and prisoner of his own thoughts. This title is worthy of what he has done. ----"Walden Pond"

22. Don't be offended if I talk to the clouds

23. We are eager to talk, but we don't care if anyone listens. ----"Diary"

24. Our houses are so bulky that we often do not live in them, but are imprisoned in them. ----"Walden"

25. A person's value does not lie in his skin, we don't need to touch him. ----"Walden"

26. For us, the light that makes our eyes invisible is darkness. Dawn comes only when we are awake. There will be more dawns. The sun is nothing but a morning star. ----"Walden Pond"

27. Their experience in nature is as smart as the city people in hypocrisy. ----"Walden Pond"

28. On those days, there were slight snowflakes flying where I worked. However, when I walked out of the woods and stepped on the railway home, there were many places where the yellow sand dunes shimmered in the haze of the atmosphere and stretched into the distance. The railway tracks shone brightly in the spring sunshine, and the singing larks, Woodcocks and other birds have arrived to start the new year with us. ----"Walden Pond"

29. Only when we wake up will genius dawn. It’s not just the dawn that breaks. The sun is nothing but a morning star. ----"Walden Pond"

30. Why do human beings have to bury their roots tightly in the soil? Isn't it just to stretch out into the sky like plants?

Classic Quotations from Walden by Thoreau

1. A critical person can find flaws even in heaven. A person with peace of mind can live a contented life anywhere. Nothing has changed, we are changing.

2. Most of the time, I think loneliness is good for health. Having company, even the best company, soon tires you of it and makes you miserable. I love solitude. I have never met a better companion than loneliness.

3. The surface of the earth is soft, and marks will appear when people step on it; similarly, the human soul will also walk out of paths.

4. Public opinion is nothing but a weak tyrant compared with our personal opinions. What a person thinks about himself determines his destiny, or rather, indicates his destiny.

5. If a person lives sincerely, he must live in a distant place.

6. Although luxuries surround us, we are still penniless compared with the thousand comforts of the savages.

7. Although I can’t be of much help when the sun rises, the only important thing at this time is that you are there when the sun rises

8. It is often necessary to use his How can a knowledgeable person remember his ignorance well?

9. There is no worse smell than the smell of a dead man.

10. Everyone who knows how to read has the power to amplify himself, greatly increase his means of survival, and make his life fulfilling, meaningful, and interesting.

11. Those things that the elderly tell you cannot be done, you might as well try to do them, and finally find that you can actually do them.

12. Remember, an opportunity can only appear once.

13. Water is the only drink for a smart person, and wine is not such a noble liquid.

14. Let us spend every day as leisurely as nature does, without letting any nut or mosquito wing fall on the railway track throw us off the track. Determine to spend every day well and not have any regrets in your life.

15. People must act according to their conscience at all costs; life is very precious and should not be wasted meaninglessly just to make a living; the world of woods and streams is good, but the bustling city with crisscrossed streets The world is bad.

16. A man should dress simply so that he can feel himself in the dark, and be simple and prepared in all aspects of his life, so that if an enemy captures a town, he can, like the ancient philosophers He walked out of the city gate empty-handed without any worries.

17. Things necessary for the human soul do not need to be bought with money.

18. There are so many falsehoods and hypocrisy in human society, they are like the chaff that is difficult to separate from the wheat grain. Like everyone, I also deplore this very much.

19. The purity that people like is the fog surrounding the earth, not the blue space outside the fog.

20. If you reach a certain state in life, you will naturally think that you can settle down anywhere.

21. It is never too late to give up prejudice.

22. If it were possible to live without any belief, we would avoid it at all costs.

23. If you are familiar with the principles of this kind of event, what meaning do the various examples and evidences have to you?

24. If we are just chattering and talking loudly, then we can be close together and feel each other's breath; but if we speak implicitly and richly with thoughtful content, then we will hope that Both parties stand far apart to give all that animal heat and moisture a chance to evaporate.

25. Socializing is often cheap. The time spent together was too short for each other to gain anything new and valuable.

26. Time determines who you will meet in life, your heart determines who you want to appear in your life, and your behavior determines who stays in the end.

27. The world is nothing but what is outside the body

28. It is the arrogant and extravagant people who create the fashion that the people strive to follow.

29. The so-called resignation is a kind of confirmed despair.

30. He is neither great nor holy, he is just a slave and prisoner of his own thoughts. This title is worthy of what he has done.

31. What he focuses on is living freely, rather than being attached to an external form of life.

32. Everything has not changed, it is us who are changing.

33. Why does a bucket of water turn smelly if left for a long time, but why does water remain sweet forever after being frozen into ice? Philosophers say that this is like the difference between emotion and reason.

34. Subtract from life and add to thoughts

35. I walk into the jungle because I want life to be meaningful, I want to live profoundly, and absorb everything in life. of essence. And then learn from it, lest I end my life and find out I never lived.

36. I have never imagined that there are any atrocities in the world worse than what I committed. I have never met before and will never meet a worse person than myself.

37. I saw how those years rushed by. After the winter, spring came.

38. I can predict that once one person transforms the imagination in his mind into a possible reality, then everyone in the future will live and build on it.

39. We admire illusions and hallucinations as the highest truth, but regard reality as nonsense.

40. We are forced to live so seriously and sincerely, respecting our lives and denying the possibility of change. We say that this is the only way to live; but there are as many ways to live as there are radii that can be drawn from the center of the circle.

41. The best qualities of our nature are like the frost on fruits. They can only be preserved if we treat them with the most care.

42. We cannot touch the horizon with just one hand

43. We benefit from the light and heat of the sun, and we should also have corresponding trust and magnanimity.

44. Our houses are so heavy and heavy that we often do not live in them, but are imprisoned in them.

45. We are all guinea pigs in the same experiment in life, and this experiment really doesn't appeal to me at all.

46. We say that we can only live like this, but there are as many radii as we can draw from the center of the circle, and there are so many ways of life. All changes are miracles worth thinking about, and everything that happens in every moment can be a miracle

47. We are always in a hurry and always seem to be rushing somewhere, even when we are on vacation or playing. I hurriedly ran through all the scenic spots marked on the map, going to one click, click, and then another click, click, and then brought back photos that I could show off to others.

48. I would rather walk my way alone, or if possible, in the company of the Builder of the Universe, than wander through the streets in a crowd of well-dressed people; I do not want to live in this restless, I would rather stand or sit and think about the neurotic, noisy, and fragmented 19th century and let it pass by quietly.

49. I believe that one day: we will become better ourselves, become the support of our parents, and become people worthy of love!

50. I want to go my own way, and I don’t want to put on makeup and show off, and I don’t want to---I don’t want to live in this restless, neurotic, hectic, and trivial century life. I would rather or immediately Or sit, meditate, and let the century pass.

51. I am willing to plunge deeply into life, suck out the marrow of life, live a solid and simple life, cleanly eliminate all content that does not belong to life, and push life to the extreme, simple In its most basic form, simple, simple, simpler.

52. After all, I am just a passer-by in your life!

53. No matter how ancient the ideas and behaviors are, they cannot be believed without verification.

54. No matter how hard the two legs work, they cannot bring the two hearts closer

55. Many people live seemingly peaceful lives, but in fact they are hopeless. Life, this is the fate of despair. You go from the hopeless city to the hopeless countryside, comforting yourself like mink and muskrat. Underneath human rest and recreation lies the unconscious despair of traditional vices. This kind of rest and recreation has no real meaning of entertainment, because only after real work can there be real entertainment. Not doing hopeless things is true wisdom.

56. Students should think more. They should not play with life, or purely study life, and ask society to pay a high price to support them. They should live passionately from beginning to end.

57. The most important news is to know that you will never age.

58. The weak and confident opposition deep in the heart of a healthy person will eventually overcome all kinds of human eloquence and customs.

59. A person’s value does not lie in his skin, we don’t need to touch him.

60. If a person lives sincerely, he must live in a distant country.

61. If a person can confidently move towards the place of his dreams and work hard to manage the life he yearns for, then he can achieve unexpected success. He will leave something behind and cross an invisible line; new, wider, freer laws will surround him and establish themselves within him; or old laws will expand and become Interpreted in his favor in a freer sense, he can qualify for a higher order of life. The simpler his life is, the simpler the laws of the universe will appear. Loneliness will no longer be lonely, poverty will no longer be poverty, and weakness will no longer be weakness. If you build castles in the air, your work is not in vain.

62. If a person can move confidently in the direction of his dreams and work hard to manage the life he wants, he can achieve success that is usually unexpected.

63. How a person views himself determines his fate and points to his destination.

64. Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared to our personal beliefs.

65. The life of all living beings is both quiet and desperate. The so-called resignation is a kind of confirmed despair.

66. At this time, I saw two big ants, one was red and the other was very big, almost half a foot long, and black. The two of them were interacting with each other. A fierce fight, no matter which one is broken, they will never give up. They just keep fighting and wrestling, and they keep rolling back and forth in the pile of small pieces of wood

67. Know yourself Knowing what you know and knowing what you don't know is true knowledge.

68. When you are the richest, your life is also the poorest. Fault-finders can find flaws even in heaven. A person with peace of mind can live a contented life anywhere, with uplifting and optimistic thoughts, just like living in a palace. There is no need to go through all kinds of troubles to find something new, whether it is clothes or friends. Renovate the old and get back into them. Nothing is changing, we are changing.

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