Thomas Traherne Quotes
"You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars."
- Thomas Traherne
(Related: Sea, Stars, World)
"Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels."
- Thomas Traherne
(Related: Father, Angels, Earth, Enjoyment, Right, World)
"This moment exhibits infinite space, but there is a space also wherein all moments are infinitely exhibited, and the everlasting duration of infinite space is another region and room of joys."
- Thomas Traherne
(Related: Infinite, Moments, Space)
"Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them."
- Thomas Traherne
(Related: Happiness, Fear, Will)
"This visible world is wonderfully to be delighted in, and highly to be esteemed, because it is the theatre of God's righteous Kingdom."
- Thomas Traherne
(Related: God, Theatre, World)
"To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious."
- Thomas Traherne
(Related: Love, Poor)
"To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness."
- Thomas Traherne
(Related: Happiness, Imagination, Present, World)
"More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery."
- Thomas Traherne
(Related: Happiness, Company, Misery)
"An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders."
- Thomas Traherne
(Related: Soul, May, Mind, Nothing, Wonders)
"Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: our love to others, and others love to us."
- Thomas Traherne
(Related: Love, World)
"Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love."
- Thomas Traherne
(Related: Love, Self)