Henry David Thoreau

Quote of Henry David Thoreau - Every morning was a cheerful invitation...

Biography - Henry David Thoreau:

American essayist, poet and philosopher.
Born: 1817 - Died: 1862
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: United States

United States

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.

Henry David Thoreau - Walden; or, Life in the Woods

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Jeder Morgen war eine frohe Aufforderung, mein Leben so einfach, und ich darf sagen, so unschuldig zu gestalten wie die Natur selbst.

Henry David Thoreau - Walden oder Leben in den Wäldern

Chaque matin était une joyeuse invitation à mettre ma vie, dans sa simplicité, et je pourrais dire son innocence, à l'unisson avec la nature elle-même.

Henry David Thoreau - Walden ou la Vie dans les bois

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The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

Henry David Thoreau - Walden; or, Life in the Woods

The sun is new each day.

Heraclitus of Ephesus - Fragments

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What good is all sunrise, if we do not stand up?

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

I am rising to the work of a human being.

Marcus Aurelius - Meditations

Quotes for: life

Quotes about life:

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust: A Tragedy /

Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.

Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées /

A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

Seneca - De Vita Beata /

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Mahatma Gandhi /

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To live means to love, but above all, to love life.

Blanche Pierson /

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

Henry David Thoreau /

All about life...

Quotes for: simplicity

Quotes about simplicity:

Out of clutter find simplicity ; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Albert Einstein /

The language of truth is simple.

Seneca - Epistulae morales ad Lucilium /

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson /

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Leonardo da Vinci - Quotation of uncertain origin /

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.

Frédéric Chopin /

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Quotes for: nature

Quotes about nature:

Universal Nature has made reasonable creatures for the sake of one another.

Marcus Aurelius - Meditations /

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Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see.

Vincent Willem van Gogh - Letters to Theo /

Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it.

Albrecht Dürer - Four Books of Human Proportion /

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

Blaise Pascal - Pensées /

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

Francis Bacon /

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Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis - Satires /

All about nature...

Henry David Thoreau also said...

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

Henry David Thoreau - Walden; or, Life in the Woods /

prejudice

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

Henry David Thoreau /

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

Henry David Thoreau - Walden; or, Life in the Woods /

wisdom

It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Henry David Thoreau - Walden; or, Life in the Woods /

A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts.

Henry David Thoreau - Walden; or, Life in the Woods /

thought

Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.

Henry David Thoreau /

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