The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Henry David Thoreau

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau · The original behind the popular paraphrase "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined", which Thoreau never wrote.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Henry David Thoreau · On his two years in a cabin he built beside Walden Pond, Massachusetts.

More Friendship Quotes

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Often credited to Aristotle · A modern reworking: what Diogenes Laertius records is Aristotle's answer to the question "What is a friend?", namely "A single soul dwelling in two bodies."

Love is friendship that has caught fire.

Ann Landers · The opening line of her "Love or Infatuation?" column, the piece readers asked her to rerun more than any other; it continues "It takes root and grows, one day at a time."

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Attributed to Walter Winchell · Winchell printed a version in his 1933 column, but the saying was already in circulation by 1916 and nobody knows who coined it.

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“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.”

“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”

“Love is friendship that has caught fire.”

“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”