Quotes of Henry David Thoreau

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A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.

- Henry David Thoreau

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“ Those who ignore the rise of evil and depravity in a democracy, grant tacit license of acceptance and draw harm upon the vulnerable. When someone has altered our course without consent, we must engage to restore our path. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ The only time a man can do the right thing is right now. ”

- John Verdon

“ True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the wellbeing of one's companion. ”

- Gordon B. Hinckley

“ Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the sun might set and rise in it and we might take the blue of midday and the black of midnight and be cast off and escape from here and now. ”

- Virginia Woolf

“ When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it. ”

- Gandhi

“ If you are too busy to pray, you are busier than God wants you to be. ”

- Wanda E. Brunstetter

“ Accepting personal responsibility for your life frees you from outside influences – increases your selfesteem – boosts confidence in your ability to decisions – and ultimately leads to achieve success in life. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ Damn right you are. Tinley, you know I love you, and I want nothing but the best for you. But you are only as capable as you believe you are. I know you could do anything you want to in this world, but you have to want it and tell yourself you can actually do it. Stop second guessing yourself and let yourself live. Truly live. ”

- Alexandria Bishop

“ Love is the beauty of the soul. ”

- Augustine of Hippo

“ Anything that makes weak physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison. ”

- Swami Vivekananda

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

- Michael Faudet

“ I find it odd the greed of mankind. People only like you for as long as they perceive they can get what they want from you. Or for as long as they perceive you are who they want you to be. But I like people for all of their changing surprises, the thoughts in their heads, the warmth that changes to cold and the cold that changes to warmth... for being human. The rawness of being human delights me. ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter. ”

- Melissa Marr

“ Never run from the truth. It is always there; it never changes – save your energy. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ Finding the lesson behind every adversity will be the one important thing that helps get you through it. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. ”

- George Edward Woodberry

“ For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand. ”

- Stephen King

“ Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is. ”

- Gary Zukav

“ The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being. ”

- Tom Robbins

“ If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur until we are far out in the darkest sea. One day you look around and nothing is familiar, not even your own face. My name once meant daughter, grandaughter, friend, sister, beloved. Now those words mean only what their letters spell out; Star in the night sky. Truth in the darkness. I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I'd be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am. ”

- Alice Hoffman

“ My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results. ”

- Ernest Shackleton

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

- Stephen Covey

“ An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it. ”

- William Bernbach