A Thoreau Day . . . .

On this morning, after a day's worth of rain and after expending a whole lot of energy resulting in futility, I could use some thoughts from one of my favorite writers who, in my later years, has evolved into a mentor. 

So, bear with me.  

Maybe you'll enjoy some Henry David Thoreau thoughts as much as I do.

I have always found his words to be both instructive and inspiring.  

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

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Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.

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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

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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.

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In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

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Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

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We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

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In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.
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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.

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Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?

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What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

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There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

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Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

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Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

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We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

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To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

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May your day be filled with quality.  

Happy Tuesday