Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
Henry David Thoreau
I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he... →
So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but... →
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?