Every once in awhile I find myself needing words to fit my pictures. Being a visual/primal being I think in pictures and it's hard for me to store the words that go along with them. Which makes my pictures EXTREMELY hard to communicate to most people because most people are not visual, they need/want words, for some reason.
Well anyway here are some very good words from an elf of a bygone era....
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
Henry David Thoreau
Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
Henry David Thoreau
Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau
How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
Henry David Thoreau
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
Henry David Thoreau
If a man loses pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music in which he hears, however measured, or far away.
Henry David Thoreau
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
Henry David Thoreau
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
Henry David Thoreau
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
Henry David Thoreau
It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
Henry David Thoreau
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?
Henry David Thoreau
It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.
Henry David Thoreau
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
Henry David Thoreau
It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
Henry David Thoreau
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
Henry David Thoreau
Law never made men a whit more just.
Henry David Thoreau
Men have become the tools of their tools.
Henry David Thoreau
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
Henry David Thoreau
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
Henry David Thoreau
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
Henry David Thoreau
