Quotes of Henry David Thoreau

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By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit as a robber.

- Henry David Thoreau

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“ We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust. ”

- David Levithan

“ What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution. ”

- Ram Dass

“ Life is tough, darling, but so are you. ”

- Stephanie Bennett Henry

“ After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language? ”

- Russell Hoban

“ I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it’s just too much. The current’s too strong. They’ve got to let go, drift apart. ”

- Kazuo Ishiguro

“ In the waltz of the leaves in the air In the features of the playful clouds In the nostalgia carried by the wind In Paris alone, I save your love (fragment from Your presence “partout”, chapter Hope) ”

- Claudia Pavel

“ Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something. ”

- E. L. Simpson

“ You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about. ”

- Muhammad Ali

“ In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into your heart where it spreads its roots, the answer, and ask yourself, must I write? ”

- Rainer Maria Rilke

“ Life is a sheet of blank papers and pen: “We write our life like one made in heaven.” Sadly though, some don’t have the pen with them: “It’s others doing the writing for them. ”

- Rodolfo Martin Vitangcol

“ If music be the food of love, play on. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ He made me feel the infinite number of feelings, In which I lost myself. ”

- Luffina Lourduraj

“ A drop of water shall be returned with a burst of spring. ”

- Pat Cher

“ Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth. ”

- Jodi Picoult

“ Battered was my heart in the deep search, branded with cracks like slices of silver birch. An ignorant dream, a wish, just fool's gold that was the tale that love had sold. ”

- Sara Secora

“ To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground. ”

- Stephen Covey

“ Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night. ”

- A. J. McLean

“ FORGET SWAG, I'VE GOT SHAKARA', ”

- Genereux Philip

“ But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving; To rest at noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy; To return home at eventide with gratitude; And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise on your lips. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. ”

- Helen Keller

“ Love alone could waken love. ”

- Pearl S. Buck

“ All things are difficult before they are easy. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ I spend most nights at home falling in love with the idea of you. ”

- Michael Faudet

“ The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all. ”

- Leo Rosten