Henry David Thoreau Life Quotes

What did Henry David Thoreau say about Life?

Henry David Thoreau has written many quotes about Life. E.g.,

• 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.
• What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
• I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

What are the top most famous Life quotes by Henry David Thoreau?

Here are the top most famous quotes about Life by Henry David Thoreau.

• 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.
• What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
• I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
• The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
• Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
• To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
• As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
• I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
• A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
• There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.