Henry David Thoreau Quotes

We all have to go through our own spiritual process. It is very difficult. Some people are struggling and they are in their teens. Some people are in their 50s and they're struggling. Some people go through life and die not being able to accept themselves. Tragic. But it's very individual. And it's about self-esteem.

Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities.

I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God's bidding.

Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in the spirit.

As we hang beneath the heavens, and we hover over hell, our hearts become the instruments we learn to play so well.

Spiritually I am wherever my spirit allows me to be, and that is not necessarily in the future... Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.

We must be careful with our lives, for Christ's sake, because it would seem that they are the only lives we are going to have in this puzzling and perilous world, and so they are very precious and what we do with them matters enormously.

Whoso does not see that genuine life is a battle and a march has poorly read his origin and his destiny.

It doesn't matter who we are, how rich we are, how poor we are, famous or not famous, we all have a short window of time here on the planet and what are we going to do with it?

The warrior of light knows that everything around him - his victories, his defeats, his enthusiasm and his despondency - form part of his Good Fight.

Our ingress into the world Was naked and bare; Our progress through the world Is trouble and care.

Every day the choice is presented to us, to live up to the spirit that is in us, or deny it.

That's right... I never felt a sense of superiority because I could see spirits. And I never once thought that I could make a living or help someone with it. I just longed for a life where I couldn't see them. And I finally got what I always wanted.

We can start by living by the Spirit while we stop following the heart of discontentment and doubt.

Emerge gently from matter into Spirit.

That which lives on reason lives against the spirit.

The way to innocence, to the uncreated and to God leads on, not back, not back to the wolf or to the child, but ever further into sin, ever deeper into human life.

Christ was a sublime actor on the stage of the world. He knew what he was thinking of when he said, "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away." I draw near to him at such a time. Yet he taught mankind but imperfectly how to live; his thoughts were all directed toward another world. There is another kind of success than his. Even here we have a sort of living to get, and must buffet it somewhat longer. There are various tough problems yet to solve, and we must shift to live, betwixt spirit and matter, such a human life as we can.

What a bummer it is to be a human being.

The shadow of human life is traced upon a golden ground of immortal hope.

To be sure, it was not Easter Sunday but Holy Saturday, but, the more I reflect on it, the more this seems to be fitting for the nature of our human life: we are still awaiting Easter; we are not yet standing in the full light but walking toward it full of trust.

What is life? A gulf of troubled waters, where the soul, like a vexed bark, is tossed upon the waves of pain and pleasure by the wavering breath of passions.

I live by the spirit so I don't gratify all them old sinful desires that never satisfy.

From the cradle to the grave, temptations all around. But no matter how good the fix, its gonna take you down.