I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. Unfortunately, I am confined to this theme by the narrowness of my experience. | |
— Henry David Thoreau | |
From his book: “Walden“ | |
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2017 | About Change |
Gordian | |
2016 | Are Your Prayers Functioning? |
2015 | Expressing Love |
2014 | Cyclical Attitudes |
2013 | Footprints |
2012 | Broken Resolutions |
Bin It | |
Posts Tagged ‘Walden’
Can We Talk About Me?
Posted in Humor, Included Video, Quotes, Videos, tagged Henry David Thoreau, Humor, I Wanna Talk About Me, Included Video, Quotes, Toby Keith, Walden, YouTube.com on January 7, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Seeking Finer Fruits
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Henry David Thoreau, Labors Of Life, Philosophy, Quotes, Walden on January 6, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them. | |
— Henry David Thoreau | |
From: “Walden“ | |
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On This Day In: | |
2017 | Something That Is Absolute |
2016 | Animate And Encourage |
Out Of Time | |
2015 | In Time |
2014 | Robust Interconnectivity |
2013 | What Have We Here? |
2012 | Tributaries And Eddies |
An Honest Politician | |
2011 | Penultimate |
To Not Discovering
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Henry David Thoreau, Life In The Woods, Philosophy, Quotes, Walden on January 8, 2014| Leave a Comment »
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. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion. | |
— Henry David Thoreau | |
From his book: “Walden; or, Life in the Woods “ | |
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2013 | I Have Less To Say |
2012 | Not The Best Prediction I’ve Ever Read |