Quotes about Reflection
Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends.... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
— Henry David Thoreau
One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors; for to dwell upon them is to add to the offense.
— Henry David Thoreau
However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society.
— Henry David Thoreau
Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived.
— Henry David Thoreau
To reget deeply is to live afresh.
— Henry David Thoreau
We are sometimes made aware of a kindness long passed, and realize that there have been times when our friends' thoughts of us were of so pure and lofty a character that they passed over us like the winds of heaven unnoticed when they treated us not as what we were, but as what we aspired to be. -- from A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
— Henry David Thoreau
We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.
— Henry David Thoreau
What a man thinks of himself that is what determines, or rather indicates his fate.
— Henry David Thoreau
Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice.
— Henry David Thoreau
Many go fishing without knowing it is fish they are after.
— Henry David Thoreau
I don't know much about history, and I wouldn't give a nickel for all the history in the world. History is more or less bunk. It is a tradition. We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.
— Henry Ford
A man cannot expect to progress without thinking.
— Henry Ford