{"id":657,"date":"2009-09-19T23:18:47","date_gmt":"2009-09-20T04:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/?p=657"},"modified":"2009-09-19T23:23:32","modified_gmt":"2009-09-20T04:23:32","slug":"favorite-thoreau-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/2009\/09\/19\/favorite-thoreau-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"Favorite Thoreau Quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Henry<\/a>

Henry David Thoreau<\/p><\/div>\n

Henry David Thoreau is a personal hero of mine because he authentically lived his life and was willing to call into question the status quo.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 His writing span a wide swath of topics from nature to civil disobedience to truth.\u00a0 He is considered a transcendentalist and was significant in influencing people like Ghandi, JFK, MLK, Tolstoy, Hemingway, George Bernard Shaw and Ralph Waldo Emerson.\u00a0 Here are a few of my favorite quotes from Thoreau:<\/p>\n

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A man is rich in proportion tothe number of things which he can afford to let alone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Being is the great explainer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Walden<\/a>

Walden Pond<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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