Quote by Henry David Thoreau

The greatest art is to shape the quality of the day.

The greatest art is to shape the quality of the day.

Summary

This quote suggests that the true essence of art lies in the ability to purposefully influence and mold the nature of our everyday experiences. It implies that just like an artist creates a masterpiece, we have the power to consciously craft the quality of our lives. Whether through our interactions, choices, or attitudes, our actions have the potential to transform ordinary moments into extraordinary ones, enhancing the beauty, depth, and meaning we find in each day. Thus, the quote encourages us to embrace our role as creators and embrace the potential impact we can have on our own lives and those around us.

Topics

Living

By Henry David Thoreau

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

I never found anyone who was good enough, who I could trust

I never found anyone who was good enough, who I could trust enough.

Christine Keeler

Trust

To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in

To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?

Michael Jackson

Life Music Live Rhythm

The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at

The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.

Claude LeviStrauss

Music

The functions of the family in a highly differentiated socie

The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.

Talcott Parsons

Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and

Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision.

Anthony Robbins

Decisions

What is does a person profit if they gain the whole world an

What is does a person profit if they gain the whole world and lose their soul.

Soul

You can do more good by being good than any other way.

You can do more good by being good than any other way.

Good

Many lick before they bite.

Many lick before they bite.

Flattery

If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go t

If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.

The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who o

The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

George Orwell, The Art of Donald

Heroes/heroism

Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing

Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.

I had grown a thin mustache, I was a full-grown man, and yet

I had grown a thin mustache, I was a full-grown man, and yet I was completely helpless and without a goal in life.

Life Man