Henry David Thoreau

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Topic: Dreams, Truth
Location: Lake Tahoe
Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin

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A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view. — Henry David Thoreau

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to evaluate his life by a conscious endeavor. — Henry David Thoreau

Awareness Perception Thinking

I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees. — Henry David Thoreau

Nature

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. — Henry David Thoreau

Alone Solitude

It takes two to speak the truth—one to speak and another to hear. — Henry David Thoreau

Communication Listening Truth

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. — Henry David Thoreau

Action Life Time Work

Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.

› Henry David Thoreau

Advice Appreciation Gratitude Happiness Life Time

Talk of mysteries! Think of our life in nature—daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it—rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! The solid earth! The actual world! The common sense! Contact! Contact! Who are we? Where are we?

› Henry David Thoreau

Common Sense

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live accordingly to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.

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Trust Wisdom

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Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends. — Dwight Eisenhower

Communication Negotiation

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. — William Hazlitt

Belief Faith Thinking Victory

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct. — Benjamin Disraeli

Criticism

Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong. — Muhammad Ali

Adversity

Truth

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It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

› Paulo Coelho

Dreams Possibility

Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal—a commitment to excellence—that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

› Mario Andretti

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Inherently, each one of us has the substance within to achieve whatever our goals and dreams define. What is missing from each of us is the training, education, knowledge and insight to utilize what we already have. — Mark Twain

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The future belongs to those that believe in the beauty of their dreams. — Eleanor Roosevelt

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Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation. — Neil Armstrong

Ambition Dreams Goals Purpose

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. — Mark Twain

Dreams Risk Travel

There is nothing like a dream to create the future. — Victor Hugo

Dreams Goals Purpose Vision

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

› Martin Luther King Jr.

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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done. — Ralph Nader

Conviction Dreams Inspiration Leadership Power Vision

Dreams are necessary to life. — Anais Nin

Dreams Life

I never dreamed about success, I worked for it. — Estee Lauder

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Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

› Earl Nightingale

Dreams Goals Time

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

› Kahlil Gibran

Dreams Trust

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams, and live the life you imagined. — Henry David Thoreau

Confidence Dreams Imagination Purpose

Action without vision is only passing time, vision without action is merely day dreaming, but vision with action can change the world. — Nelson Mandela

Action Change Dreams Leadership Life Society Time Vision

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. — Edgar Allan Poe

Dreams

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.

› Albert Einstein

Dreams Goals Persistence Purpose

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.

› Henry David Thoreau

Confidence Dreams Goals Life Purpose Success Vision

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Commitment Confidence Dreams Faith Goals Purpose Vision

Remember your dreams and fight for them. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible:the fear of failure.

› Paulo Coelho

Dreams Failure Fear

Dreams are the touchstones of our characters. — Henry David Thoreau

Character Dreams

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

› Anais Nin

Action Dreams

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. — Thomas Jefferson

Dreams Goals Purpose Time Visualize

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. — Buddha

Honesty Truth

If you don’t want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today. — Bruce Lee

Character Habits Honesty Truth

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. — Will Rogers

Honesty Integrity Reputation Truth Values

Can’t is the worst word that is written or spoken; Doing more harm here than slander and lies; On it is many a strong spirit broken, And with it many a good purpose dies.

› Edgar Guest

Purpose Truth

You can't pray a lie—I found that out. — Mark Twain

Prayer Truth

If you compromise your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you never will have real wealth based on peace of mind.

› Napoleon Hill

Peace Self Self-esteem Truth Wealth

Be a free thinker and don’t accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in. — Aristotle

Belief Thinking Truth

Truth

He, of course, is a liar, but that doesn’t really matter because, if you know liars are liars, it comes to the same thing. — Agatha Christie

Character Honesty Reputation Truth

Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

› Plato

Affirmation Perception Self Truth