Things do not change; we change.

—Henry David Thoreau

About Henry David Thoreau

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Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau; July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience" (originally published as "Resistance...

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I stand in awe of my body.

—Henry David Thoreau

Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.

—Henry David Thoreau

The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.

—Henry David Thoreau

It is a great ability to be able to conceal one's ability.

—Henry David Thoreau

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

—Henry David Thoreau

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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

—Harrison Ford

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

—Harold Wilson

The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change-and we all instinctively avoid it.

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

—Christina Baldwin

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

—Carol Burnett

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