I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune.
- Topic: Appreciation, Gratitude, Happiness, Solitude
- Location: Hawaii, Maui
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
More Quotes from Henry David Thoreau
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the door.
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Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible. The kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
When you don't come from struggle, gaining appreciation is a quality that's difficult to come by.
A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than they need.
Do you feel gloomy? Lift your eyes. Stand on your feet. Say a few words of appreciation and love to the lord. Be positive.
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.
Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful.
Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
Any one thing in creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.
O beautiful for spacious skies, For Amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed his grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!
There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation of favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
The common denominator of happy and successful people is that they spend their time with other happy and successful people.
I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.
Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.
Happiness is a quality of the soul, not a function of one's material circumstances.
Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.
I love people. I love my family, my children… but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up.
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware.
It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
