If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he as imagined, he will meet with success unexpectedly in common hours.
Age is not better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.
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More Quotes from Henry David Thoreau
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.
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
More on Age
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.
Vigor is found in the man who has not yet grown old, and discretion in the man who is not too young.
I remember my youth and the feeling that I could last forever, outlast the sea, the earth and all men.
We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.
Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
Towering in the confidence of twenty-one.
Old age is no place for sissies.
He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.
