Henry David Thoreau Live Life Quotations

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

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 has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. . . . In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness.

Life isn't about finding yourself; it's about creating yourself. So live the life you imagined.

Spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it, reminds me of the Englishman who went to India to make a fortune first, in order that he might return to England and live the life of a poet. He should have gone up garret at once.

Live the life you've dreamed.

Endeavor to live the life you have imagined.

Let go of the past and live the future . . . Live the life you imagined.

Go confidently ... Live the life that you imagined.