Quotes of Henry David Thoreau

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The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.

- Henry David Thoreau

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“ Such is my relationship with God: on my gigantic canvass of life, I am the one throwing all of the brightlycolored paints, creating genuine splatters, authentic whirlpools of color, beautiful patterns, wonderful streaks and stains and wild accents; God is the one with the paintbrush who stands beside my canvass filling all the intricate and amazing details in between the whirlpools and the streaks! We're happy together! ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. ”

- Max Ehrmann

“ Hmm…now that I think about it, housecats are often coddled and petted. You don’t pet me nearly enough. You must be a lax owner. How selfish of you to deprive your cat of attention. ”

- Colleen Houck

“ Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love. ”

- Billy Graham

“ I know that the whole point—the only point—is to find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go. ”

- Lauren Oliver

“ 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

“ We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. ”

- Émile Zola

“ Just because you fall once, doesn't mean you're fall at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always trust yourself, because if you don't then who will?? ”

- Marilyn Monroe

“ Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Either you run the day, or the day runs you. ”

- Jim Rohn

“ I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ The human tendency is to resemble or imitate those we admire; the common result is the delusion, that to emulate another’s personality creates a pseudo persona, measurably dissimilar from our own. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. ”

- Socrates

“ I don't think you can define love. ”

- Harry Styles

“ At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. ”

- Plato

“ Sometimes the hardest one to see . . .is the one standing right before you. ”

- Lenora Porch

“ Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option. ”

- Maya Angelou

“ Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ The more one judges, the less one loves. ”

- Honore de Balzac

“ One day she will be mine. I am telling you. I need to have her, and she needs me. She just doesn’t know it yet. There is no one in the world that could love her the way I could. ”

- Nico J. Genes

“ The path is paved with consistent, conscious mental and spiritual alertness and the gradual growth of goodness in our heart and clarity in our mind. We are awake. If we keep trying to understand, we will understand. If we keep telling ourselves that we are loved by Life and if we keep looking for evidence of that love, we will find it. ”

- Donna Goddard