Henry David Thoreau

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till the other is ready, and it may be along time before they get off.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure.

The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy, it’s only necessary to be rich.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

You don’t stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it, than you do to consume wealth without producing it.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

I love people who make me laugh.

I have to plan my happiness. That’s the thing, we think happiness just happens and it can, but you’ve got to work in some happiness too.

It’s not selfish to love yourself, take care of yourself, and to make your happiness a priority. It’s necessary.

Money itself won’t bring happiness, but it sure makes paying the bills easier.

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.

The truth is that all of us can attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to its greatest extent.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Happiness isn’t a one-size-fits-all proposition. You must define what it looks like for you and then make a conscious effort to access whatever gets you to your unique definition of joy.