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[thegreatloop-blog]

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Henry David Thoreau (via thegreatloop)

[alejandra17]

“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves”

— Henry David Thoreau

[all-aroundepiphany]

Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say: I will simply BE.

Harrison Gray Blake (letter to Thoreau, 1848)

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[fuckyeahhenrydavidthoreau-blog]

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“How many poor immortal souls have I met well neigh crushed and smothered under its load, creeping down the road of life…

The twelve labors of Hercules were trifling in comparison with those which my neighbors have undertaken; for they were only twelve, and had an end; but I could...

[kathrynburns]

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life…

Henry David Thoreau (via kathrynburns)

[sexandserenade-blog]

Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it will elude you. But if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder,

-Thoreau <3 (via sexlustandpixiedust)

[ghostpulse]

“No man ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his clothing; yet I am sure that there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience”

   -Henry David Thoreau (from Walden: chapter one, ‘Economy’)

[ceremoniousgrace]

  The Top 5 Must-Read Books Before You Die | #4: Walden, Henry David Thoreau

“Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked.”

Within the first ten pages, Thoreau so eloquently depicts one of the greatest flaws in modern society…in 1854.  This book is a must-read because it speaks to the truth of our seemingly overindulgent, obsessive lifestyles.  It is so rare that modern literature portray the message of “live simply,” yet it is something we all should ponder more on. 

“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.”

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

Thoreau (via xohdevin)

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“Most of the luxuries, and many of the so called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hinderances to the elevation of mankind. With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor.”

—Thoreau

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[blacknmothheart-blog]

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

Henry David Thoreau (via jellyjenjenny)

[missebby-deactivated20110220]

Read the books first, or you may not

have a chance to read them at all.

          -Thoreau

[saucyboysfrenchies]

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau (via saucyboysfrenchies)

[fuckyeahhenrydavidthoreau-blog]

May I go to my slumbers as expecting to arise to a new and more perfect day. May I so live and refine my life as fitting myself for a society ever higher than I actually enjoy. May I treat myself tenderly as I would treat the must innocent child whom I love; may I treat children and my friends as my newly discovered self. Let me forever go in search of myself; never for a moment think that I have found myself, never a familiar, seeking acquaintance still. -Henry David Thoreau "Journal." (1851)

[fuckyeahhenrydavidthoreau-blog]

If it were not that I desire to do something here, -accomplish some work,- I should certainly prefer to die and suffer then be at the pains to get a living by the modes men propose. -Henry David Thoreau "Journals" (1851)