Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Happiness

• The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Best Friend, Happiness

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.29, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• Things do not change; we change.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.212, Cosimo, Inc.

• There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Happiness, Depression

• I am a happy camper so I guess I’m doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Happiness, Happy, Butterfly

• You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Happiness, Success, Hope

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.395, Yale University Press

• It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Happiness, Success, Hope

• The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Happiness, Real Friends

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.9, Heron Dance Press

• I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home. I thus dispose of the superfluous and see things as they are, grand and beautiful.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Happiness, Beautiful, Home

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Selections from the Journals”, p.34, Courier Corporation

• Remember that the smallest seed of faith is of more worth than the largest fruit of happiness.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Happiness, Depression, Faith

  "Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau".

• Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Happiness, Laughter, Men

  Henry David Thoreau, Bob Blaisdell (2011). “Thoreau: A Book of Quotations”, p.33, Courier Corporation

• That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Happiness, Wisdom, Money

• My greatest skill has been to want but little.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Happiness, Skills

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.111

• We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Happiness, Laughter, Memories

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1631, Delphi Classics

• What wisdom, what warning can prevail against gladness? There is no law so strong that a little gladness may not transgress.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Happiness, Strong, Law

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.103, Courier Corporation

• I love the broad margin to my life.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Happiness, Life Happiness, Broads

• The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Happiness, Morning, Evening

  Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.129, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

• Those undeserved joys which come uncalled and make us more pleased than grateful are they that sing.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Happiness, Grateful, Joy

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.30, Yale University Press

• I am too easily contented with a slight and almost animal happiness. My happiness is a good deal like that of the woodchucks.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Happiness, Animal, Woodchucks

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.359, Penguin

• I do not know what right I have to so much happiness, but rather hold it in reserve till the time of my desert.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Happiness, Desert, Knows

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.35, Jazzybee Verlag

• It enhances our sense of the grand security and serenity of nature to observe the still undisturbed economy and content of the fishes of this century, their happiness a regular fruit of the summer.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Happiness, Summer, Nature

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.460, Simon and Schuster

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