Henry David Thoreau Quotes

There's no shame in enjoying a quiet life. And that's been the realization of the past few years for me.

Trust that through the balm of simplicity your frazzled and weary soul can discover the place where you ought to be. Every day offers us simple gifts when we are willing to search our hearts for the place that's right for each of us.

Think about all the good things of your life. Never think about your difficulties. Forget yourself, and concentrate on being of service as much as you can in this world, and then, having lost your lower self in a cause greater than yourself, you will find your higher self: your real self.

Move forward and let others do the same. Simple. This is a guiding principle everyone should have.

The path to enlightenment is really very simple - all we need to do is stop cherishing ourself and learn to cherish others. All other spiritual realisations will naturally follow from this.

If you would attain to your highest, go look upon a flower;what the flower does willessly, that do willingly.

I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

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.

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.

In my life I've learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we're all searching for. I haven't come across anyone who didn't become a better person through love.

We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is alive around us, and reconcile ourselves with our environment.

A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others.

It only seems that there is something more important for you to do than to just quietly be yourself.

If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.

With renunciation life begins.

Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.

I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person.

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.

We are constantly learning and growing and changing. We are really an experiment. We are endeavoring to discover if a community of faith can exist purely for the good of others.

I just live my life.

The more you learn what to do with yourself, and the more you do for others, the more you will learn to enjoy the abundant life.

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

If I want to leave one thing here after I'm gone, it would be an incredible sense of humility.

I don't want to surpass anyone. I don't want to be better than anyone else.