Thomas Traherne Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“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.”

“You never know yourself till you know more than your body.”

“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.”

“To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.”

“More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.”

“This visible world is wonderfully to be delighted in, and highly to be esteemed, because it is the theatre of God's righteous Kingdom.”

“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.”

“Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: our love to others, and others love to us.”

“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.”