Thomas Traherne – 4 Quotes

4 Quotes by Thomas Traherne

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

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

– Thomas Traherne

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

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