Henry David Thoreau Quotes about Optimism

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Do not engage to find things as you think they are.

Do not engage to find things as you think they are.

Henry David Thoreau

Thinking, Discovery, Optimism

Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.148, Jazzybee Verlag

As for health, consider yourself well.

Henry David Thoreau

Health, Optimism, Wells

Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.363, Penguin

I have found all things thus far, persons and inanimate matter, elements and seasons, strangely adapted to my resources.

Henry David Thoreau

Optimism, Elements, Matter

Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.122, Penguin

A sufficiently great and generous trust could never be abused.

Henry David Thoreau

Trust, Optimism, Generous

Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.50, Jazzybee Verlag

If a person lost would conclude that after all he is not lost, he is not beside himself, but standing in his own old shoes on thevery spot where he is, and that for the time being he will live there; but the places that have known him, they are lost,--how much anxiety and danger would vanish.

Henry David Thoreau

Shoes, Optimism, Anxiety

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.148, Courier Corporation

I never yet knew the sun to be knocked down and rolled through a mud-puddle; he comes out honor-bright from behind every storm. Let us then take sides with the sun, seeing we have so much leisure.

Henry David Thoreau

Optimism, Honor, Storm

Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Collected Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated): Philosophical and Autobiographical Books, Essays, Poetry, Translations, Biographies & Letters: Walden, Civil Disobedience, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, Slavery in Massachusetts, Walking…”, p.1735, e-artnow

The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel.

Henry David Thoreau

Optimism, Energy, Globes

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

So far as my experience goes, travelers generally exaggerate the difficulties of the way. Like most evil, the difficulty is imaginary; for what's the hurry?

Henry David Thoreau

Travel, Evil, Optimism

Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.101, Penguin

I seem to have dodged all my days with one or two persons, and lived upon expectation,--as if the bud would surely blossom; and soI am content to live.

Henry David Thoreau

Two, Expectations, Optimism