4 Henry David Thoreau Quotes on Wellbeing

Henry David Thoreau quotes on wellbeing

46. The commonest and cheapest sounds, as the barking of a dog, produce the same effect on fresh and healthy ears that the rarest music does. It depends on your appetite for sound. Just as a crust is sweeter to a healthy appetite than confectionery to a pampered or diseased one.

109. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.

122. Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him.

187. A man who must separate himself from his neighbours' habits in order to be happy, is in much the same case with one who requires to take opium for the same purpose. What we want to see is one who can breast into the world, do a man's work, and still preserve his first and pure enjoyment of existence.