Henry David Thoreau Optimism Quotations

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?

Men cannot conceive of a state of things so fair that it cannot be realized.

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

A sufficiently great and generous trust could never be abused.

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.

As for health, consider yourself well.

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

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

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.

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.