Henry David Thoreau Quotes

When our universe is in harmony with man, the eternal, we know it as truth, we feel it as beauty.

I've seen whales calving in the waters off Maui, and I've watched my children being born. But music is the most beautiful thing of all.

I am deeply spiritual; I revel in those things that make for good - the things that we can do to shed a little light, to help place an oft-dissonant universe back in tune with itself... Long live art, long live friendship, long live the joy of life!

I gave life, and that is beautiful.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

The good is the beautiful.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love.

If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.

The following terms all mean one and the same thing: God, goodness, mental health, truth, decency, happiness, freedom, reality, peace, love, sensibleness.

To give birth is the most beautiful thing in the world.

The good is always beautiful, the beautiful is good!

No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe. God is the all-fair. Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All.

Love builds up the broken wall and straightens the crooked path. Love keeps the stars in the firmament and imposes rhythm on the ocean tides. Each of us is created of it and I suspect each of us was created for it.

Nature is the mirror of divinity.

As much as the world has an instinct for evil and is a breeding ground for genocide, holocaust, slavery, racism, war, oppression, and injustice, the world has an even greateer instinct for goodness, rebirth, mercy, beauty, truth, freedom and love.

Nature did all things well

Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All

When the human being sings he lends expression to the great wise ways in which the world was made.

By ethical conduct toward all creatures, we enter into a spiritual relationship with the universe.

Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty.

Music attracts the angels in the universe.

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.