Sometimes you have to leave the world in order to learn how to live in it. Thoreau shunned society, went to the woods, and came back with a new understanding of life.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.

The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.

You can’t confuse childlike faith with childish thinking.

Having a ‘taste for life’ is about knowing its various flavours and awaiting the next meal.

Those who are content have enough; those that complain, have too much.

I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it . . .

Plastic surgery is such a displacement. If people feel good in their skin, then they're beautiful, end of story.

Ain't no chance if you dont take it.

There is a genius on one side of every trade and a dolt on the other, but which is which does not become clear until much later.

You happened to me. You were as deep down as I’ve ever been. You were inside me like my pulse.

I invested, and I protected myself, so I enjoy that freedom.

There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.