in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can.
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Aphorisms by Henry David Thoreau
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Moods)
In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.
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However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society.
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I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Job)
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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