Read no further if you don’t have a strong stomach or if you are easily offended. This quote comes from a very strange-but-funny movie called Me and You and Everyone We Know starring: Miranda July, John Hawkes, Miles Thompson and Brandon Ratcliff. Thompson and Ratcliff play Hawkes’ two sons and in the scene I’m about to quote they are trying to think of grown-up things to say in a sex chat room…
“I’ll poop in your butt hole…
and then you will poop it back…
into my butt…
and we will keep doing it…
back and forth With the same poop.
Forever.”
This quote by Henry David Thoreau comes from his famous book Walden: Or Life in The Woods and is about being different, marching to the beat of your own drum, and having your own definition of “success”. Read more »
Henry David Thoreau’s Walden is probably quoted more than any other book about voluntary simplicty, and is certainly one of the oldest pieces of American literature on the subject. This quote about obtaining wisdom through simplicity occurs on one of the last pages of the book, as Thoreau discusses his departure from Walden Pond: Read more »
Henry David Thoreau discusses success toward the end of his famous book Walden: Or Life in The Woods while explaining why he chose to leave the woods after the second year at Walden Pond. Read more »
In the first paragraph of Chapter 11 – (Higher Laws) – in his famous book Walden, Henry David Thoreau writes about seeing a woodchuck while walking back to his cabin after fishing at Walden Pond. I’m going to provide two quotes from that paragraph below. The first involves the woodchuck…
“…I caught a glimpse of a woodchuck stealing across my path, and felt a strange thrill of savage delight, and was strongly tempted to seize and devour him raw.”
The second quote from this paragraph is an explanation of where his feelings must have come from…
“I found in myself, and still find, an instinct toward a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life, as do most men, and another toward a primitive, rank and savage one, and I reverence them both. I love the wild not less than the good.”
This quote is the first sentence of Chapter 2 “Where I lived, and What I Lived For” in Henry David Thoreau’s masterpiece on simple living, Walden. Read more »
Thoreau found it “wholesome” to be alone, as was mentioned several times in his year-long meditation of the first half of two-years at Walden Pond – otherwise known as one of his most famous books, Walden. This quote is from chapter five… Read more »
Even though you don’t get to this quote until you’re several dozen pages into Walden, by Henry David Thoreau, to many people it exemplifies the book’s timeless message: Read more »
This quote on voluntary poverty is often cited by practitioners of modern-day voluntary simplicity as being highly inspirational. It appears in the first chapter of Henry David Thoreau’s well-known book Walden, or Life in the Woods, which chronicles the first of two years in which Thoreau spent in a cabin he built in the woods next to Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. Read more »
Reality is relative, both figureatively and literally. We’re not sure which way Albert Einstein meant it in this case. Perhaps both?
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
If you know where this quote originates let us know in the comment section.
Read no further if you don’t have a strong stomach or if you are easily offended. This quote comes from a very strange-but-funny movie called Me and You and Everyone We Know starring: Miranda July, John Hawkes, Miles Thompson and Brandon Ratcliff. Thompson and Ratcliff play Hawkes’ two sons and in the scene I’m about to quote they are trying to think of grown-up things to say in a sex chat room…