truisms

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Tue 19 December 2006 8:53 am

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

Henry David Thoreau

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Tue 19 December 2006 8:53 am

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

Henry David Thoreau

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Tue 19 December 2006 8:54 am

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

Henry David Thoreau

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Tue 19 December 2006 8:55 am

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Henry David Thoreau

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Tue 19 December 2006 8:56 am

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

Henry David Thoreau

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Tue 19 December 2006 8:57 am

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

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Tue 19 December 2006 9:15 am

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

Henry David Thoreau