Echoes

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

He who is everywhere is nowhere.

Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer.

I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit.

There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment. Everyone lets the present moment slip by, then looks for it as though he thought it were somewhere else.

We are here to add what we can to, not to get what we can from, Life.

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

The present moment contains past and future. The secret of transformation, is in the way we handle this very moment.

The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

In my walks I would fain return to my senses. What business have I in the woods, if I am thinking of something out of the woods?

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

I am endeavouring to live every day as if it were a complete life.

Thou oughtest in every deed and thought so to order thyself, as if thou wert to die this day.

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

Lost Time is never found again.

The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.

He who does not value life does not deserve it.

When you are content to be simply yourself, everybody will respect you.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.