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Henry David Thoreau Quotes about Happiness

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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

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

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

Henry David Thoreau
Happiness, Success, Hope

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

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Henry David Thoreau
Happiness, Wisdom, Money

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".

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

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.

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

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 love the broad margin to my life.

Henry David Thoreau
Happiness, Life Happiness, Broads

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

My greatest skill has been to want but little.

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

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

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 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

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

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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