Thought for the Day

“Be not simply good;
be good for something.”

~ Henry David Thoreau

Thought of the Day

“Every generation laughs at the old fashions,
but religiously follows the new.”

~ Henry David Thoreau

“Any fool can make a rule,
and any fool will mind it.”

~ Henry David Thoreau

“The most I can do for my friend
is simply be his friend.”

~ Henry David Thoreau

“Do not trouble yourself much to get new things,
whether clothes or friends…
Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.”

~ Henry David Thoreau

“Thank God men cannot fly,
and lay waste the sky
as well as the earth.”

~ Henry David Thoreau

Quote of the Day
“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.”
~Henry David Thoreau~

Thought of the Day

The above quote is probably the most famous by Thoreau, and one of my favorites. Every time I read it it makes me think, not only about who I am and where I’m from, but also about where I am going. [Read more →]