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Henry David Thoreau

Quote of Henry David Thoreau - You must live in the present...


Biography - Henry David Thoreau:

American essayist, poet and philosopher.
Born: 1817 - Died: 1862
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: United States
United States

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.


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(French, German)



French
Tu dois vivre dans le présent, te lancer au-devant de chaque vague, trouver ton éternité à chaque instant.

German
Du musst in der Gegenwart leben, dich vor jede Welle werfen, jeden Augenblick deine Ewigkeit finden.




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See also...



Seize the day.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

It is not enough to take steps, which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.

You can't live at all, unless you can live fully now.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Later it will be too late. Our life is now.

I am simply what I am, or I begin to be that. I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future. I love to live.

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep.

Mastery of the moment is mastery over life.

When we make music we don't do it in order to reach a certain point, such as the end of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then obviously the fastest players would be the best. Also, when we are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a particular place on the floor as in a journey. When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point.

A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.


While we wait for life, life passes.




Quotes for: to live


Quotes

Quotes for: to live


True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.





To live without philosophizing is properly to have one's eyes closed and never attempt to open them.





To live means to love, but above all, to love life.





A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion.





My trade and art is to live.





"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."











Quotes for: present


Quotes

Quotes about the present:


Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
Seneca / 





Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.





In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.





The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.





Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.





The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.











Quotes for: eternity


Quotes

Quotes about eternity:


To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.






It is found again.
What? Eternity.
It is the sea
Gone with the sun.






Time is the moving image of eternity.
Plato - Timaeus / 





Time, that moving image of an immovable eternity.





Be humanity evermore our goal.





Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.











Quotes

Henry David Thoreau also said...


It is never too late to give up our prejudices.





Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.





It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.





It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.





A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts.





Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.












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