By a conscious effort of the mind we can stand aloof from actions and their consequences; and all things, good and bad, go by us like a torrent. Henry David Thoreau More Quotes by Henry David Thoreau More Quotes From Henry David Thoreau The world laughs in flowers. Henry David Thoreau flower laughing world What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have-leisure and a quiet mind. Henry David Thoreau mind may bankers Staying in the house breeds a sort of insanity always. Every house is, in this sense, a hospital. Henry David Thoreau staying house insanity The three-o'-clock in the morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest. Henry David Thoreau three courage morning The best books are not read even by those who are called good readers. What does our Concord culture amount to? There is in this town, with a very few exceptions, no taste for the best or for very good books even in English literature, whose words all can read and spell. Henry David Thoreau doe culture book I was daily intoxicated, yet no man could call me intemperate. Henry David Thoreau call-me alcohol men We have built for this world a family mansion, and the next a family tomb. The best works of art are the expression of man's struggle to free himself from this condition, but the effect of our art is merely to make this low state comfortable and that higher state to be forgotten. Henry David Thoreau family struggle art If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. [Like they say, 'Every cloud has a silver lining'...so if you are patient, expect, anticipate, look and work for some good to come from the cloud, you will be rewarded eventually!] Henry David Thoreau disappointment clouds looks We begin to praise when we begin to see a thing needs our assistance. Henry David Thoreau encouraging praise needs I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features. Henry David Thoreau women pleasure talking Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor. Henry David Thoreau farming poor interesting The prosaic man sees things badly, or with the bodily sense; but the poet sees them clad in beauty, with the spiritual sense. Henry David Thoreau gratitude spiritual men It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see - i.e. compare it to, something worse or better, that determines whether you are respectively grateful and happy or ungrateful and bitter. Henry David Thoreau gratitude grateful looks I am grateful for what I have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. Henry David Thoreau i-am-grateful gratitude grateful A journal, is a book that shall contain a record of all your joy, your ecstasy, what you are grateful for. Henry David Thoreau gratitude grateful book Probe the universe in a myriad of points. ... He is a wise man who has taken many views; to whom stones and plants and animals and a myriad of objects have each suggesting something, contributed something. Henry David Thoreau taken wise animal Before the land rose out of the ocean, and became dry land, chaos reigned; and between high and low water mark, where she is partially disrobed and rising, a sort of chaos reigns still, which only anomalous creatures can inhabit. Henry David Thoreau ocean land water I lingered most about the fireplace, as the most vital part of the house. Henry David Thoreau fireplaces house Here is this vast, savage, howling mother of ours, Henry David Thoreau nature mother children One should be always on the trail of one's own deepest nature. For it is the fearless living out of your own essential nature that connects you to the Divine. Henry David Thoreau fearless essentials divine
