"Going from--toward; it is the history of..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
Going from--toward; it is the history of every one of us.
More by Henry David Thoreau
“The most attractive sentences are not perhaps the wisest, but the surest and soundest.”
“The only way to speak the truth is to speak lovingly.”
“A man receives only what he is ready to receive, whether physically or intellectually or morally, as animals conceive at certain seasons their kind only. We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.”
More on Life
“If you think your lot in life has been hard read “Up From Slavery” by Booker T. Washington, and you may see how fortunate you have been.”
“Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps.”
“There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.”
More on Journey
“The goal ever recedes from us. The greater the progress the greater the recognition of our unworthiness. Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.”
“Where do we find ourselves? In a series of which we do not know the extremes, and believe that it has none. We wake and find ourselves on a stair; there are stairs below us, which we seem to have ascended; there are stairs above us, many a one, which go upward and out of sight.”
“The one thing that matters is the effort. It continues, whereas the end to be attained is but an illusion of the climber, as he fares on and on from crest to crest; and once the goal is reached it has no meaning.”