Walden is the report of a man torn by two powerful and opposing drives — the desire to enjoy the world and the urge to set the world straight.

E.B. White
Some Similar Quotes
  1. We're all golden sunflowers inside. - Allen Ginsberg

  2. Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived. - Eleanor Roosevelt

  3. [F]or just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else. It's here, and you'd better decide... - Lev Grossman

  4. In a person's lifetime there may be not more than half a dozen occasions that he can look back to in the certain knowledge that right then, at that moment, there was room for nothing but happiness in his heart. - Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

  5. Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon. - Charles M. Schulz

More Quotes By E.B. White
  1. If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard...

  2. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.

  3. Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They'll believe anything they see in print.

  4. This is what youth must figure out: Girls, love, and living. The having, the not having, The spending and giving, And the meloncholy time of not knowing. This is what age must learn about: The ABC of dying. The going, yet not going, The loving...

  5. Thus I, gone forth, as spiders do, In spider’s web a truth discerning, Attach one silken strand to you For my returning.

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