Examples of Transcendentalism

"Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience." – Henry David Thoreau

“The sun shines today also.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.” – Henry David Thoreau

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.” – Henry David Thoreau

“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” – Henry David Thoreau

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead

where there is no path and leave a trail." – Henry David Thoreau

“All good things are wild and free.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Standing on the bare ground,--my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space,--all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature and Selected Essays

“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Be yourself—not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.” – Henry David Thoreau