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

Writer, naturalist · 1817 – 1862

American writer known for Walden (1854) and the essay Civil Disobedience.

Source: Walden (1854) · ✓ Source verified

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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, in front of the essential facts of life.

Things do not change, we change.

Simplify, simplify.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.