Henry David Thoreau Quotes

What frightens me is that men are content with what is not life at all.

Ya know, right now the most important thing in my life is to make sure you understand that, first of all I thank God I'm alive today, and I mean that. I spent too many years of my life thinking that the big party was the whole thing.

I always said all my life if I wasn't born and they gave me the question I'd say I don't want to be born.

For me, there is nothing worse than the knowledge that my life holds nothing for me but being a writer.

The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual.

An awareness of one's mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.

Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.

Tintinnabulation is an area I sometimes wander into when I am searching for answers - in my life, my music, my work. In my dark hours, I have the certain feeling that everything outside this one thing has no meaning.

Some instinct - and I think it was a correct one - led me to do something difficult enough to give my life meaning.

I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.

Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

Don't go to the grave with life unused.

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.

Without question, the material world and your everyday needs distract you from living meaningfully.

One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.

We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.

I have to be self-conscious of what I'm trying to do with my life.

I guess I hit a point while I was in college when I realized I would have to do something with my life!

I intend to live life, not just exist.

I wake up in the morning, and I look in a mirror, and I go, 'Is this really all I got? Is this all the universe has given me?'

Life is short, and therefore, one thing being certain, death, let us take up a great ideal, and give up the whole life to it. For what is the value of life, this vegetating little low life of man? Subordinating it to one high ideal is the only value that life has.

Comparing objects like cars, houses, clothes, and defining life according to those comparisons, instead of trying to discover the real reason for being alive.

I lived with the terrible knowledge that one day I would be an old man still waiting for my real life to start. Already, I pitied that old man.