Henry David Thoreau Quotes

I am my own muse, the subject I know best.

I'm just trying to do things that are interesting for me.

What I have to do now is figure where my passion is, and follow my heart; I've proven that if I have the passion for something then I can succeed. I haven't been listening to my heart in the last little while.

There have been many dreams which have been personal guides for me.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

I can't tell you what your purpose is, that's got to come from you.

I don't let many things that are superficial keep me in a box.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

I don't know - to be honest, I don't really model myself after anybody.

If I lose touch with that... the reason why I act... then I'll leave it all. I don't do it for fame or money.

You can't think about what other people think. You just can't. It's stupid. You've got to look inside yourself.

I am not inspired by anyone. I don't have any idol. I just follow the people around me and try and learn a few things.

Do stuff that is true to your own experiences.

Sometimes we need to take some time to reflect. Sometimes we need to do something different. Sometimes we need to do something not because others are doing it so we want to do the same, but because it is different.

The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations.

Pitch within yourself.

Always listen to yourself. It is better to be wrong than to simply follow convention. If you are wrong, no matter, you have learned something and you will grow stronger. If you are right, you have taken another step toward a fulfilling life.

The things to do are: the things that need doing: that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done. Then you will conceive your own way of doing that which needs to be done - that no one else has told you to do or how to do it. This will bring out the real you that often gets buried inside a character that has acquired a superficial array of behaviors induced or imposed by others on the individual.

I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.

Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it.

The world is full of people who have stopped listening to themselves or have listened only to their neighbors to learn what they ought to do, how they ought to behave, and what the values are they should be living for.

If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible-society, vote with a great party either for the government or against it, spread your table like base housekeepers, - under all these screens I have diffuculty to detect the precise man you are: and of course so much force is withdrawn from your proper life. But do your work and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself. A man must consider what a blind-man's bluff is this game of conformity. If I know your sect I anticipate your argument.

It takes tremendous discipline, takes tremendous courage, to think for yourself, to examine yourself.

Many things that come into the world are not looked into. The individual says 'My crowd doesn't run that way.' I say, don't run with crowds.

All of us have our own journeys.