Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Eternity

• You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Commitment, Insperational, Carpe Diem

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.395, Yale University Press

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Happiness, Success, Hope

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.395, Yale University Press

• As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Memories, Transcendentalism

  'Walden' (1854) 'Economy'

• Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Fishing, Eternity

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Walden; Or, Life in the Woods”, p.64, Courier Corporation

• You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this, or the like of this. I wish to live ever as to derive my satisfactions and inspirations from the commonest events, everyday phenomena, so that what my senses hourly perceive, my daily walk, the conversation of my neighbors, may inspire me, and I may dream of no heaven but that which lies about me.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dream, Lying, Inspiration

• The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Nature, Gentle Touch

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Thoreau's Book of Quotations”, p.91, Courier Corporation

• find your eternity in each moment

  Henry David Thoreau

  Carpe Diem, Islands, Eternity Of Life

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.395, Yale University Press

• The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Past, Two, Live In The Moment

• In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Future, Past

  'Walden' (1854) 'Economy'

• So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Attitude, Positive Thinking, Roots

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.183, Graphic Arts Books

• Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Eternity Of Life, Fishing

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.64, Cosimo, Inc.

• Read not the Times, read the Eternities.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Eternity

  Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.86, Rowman & Littlefield

• Our last deed, like the young of the land crab, wends its way to the sea of cause and effect as soon as born, and makes a drop there to eternity.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Sea, Land

• In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment and will never be more divine in the lapse of the ages. Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but when I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away but eternity remains.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Fishing, Sublime

• Surely, we are provided with senses as well fitted to penetrate the spaces of the real, the substantial, the eternal, as these outward are to penetrate the material universe. Veias, Menu, Zoroaster, Socrates, Christ, Shakespeare, Swedenborg,--these are some of our astronomers.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Real, Space, Transcendentalism

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.307, Courier Corporation

• Man's moral nature is a riddle which only eternity can solve.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Morality, Eternity

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2126, Delphi Classics

• Let a man take time enough for the most trivial deed, though it be but the paring of his nails. The buds swell imperceptibly, without hurry or confusion,--as if the short spring days were an eternity.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Men, Confusion

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.12, Yale University Press

• The life of a wise man is most of all extemporaneous, for he lives out of an eternity which includes all time.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.927, Delphi Classics

• The object of love expands and grows before us to eternity, until it includes all that is lovely, and we become all that can love.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beauty, Love Is, Lovely

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1758, Delphi Classics

• What a pity if we do not live this short time according to the laws of the long time,--the eternal laws!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Law, Long

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.360, Penguin

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