Henry David Thoreau Quotes
Who looks in the sun will see no light else; but also he will see no shadow. Our life revolves unceasingly, but the centre is ever the same, and the wise will regard only the seasons of the soul.
Quotes to Explore
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I think the meaning of abortion is what the woman says it is: For a woman who wants a child but can't have this one, it can be sad; for a woman who doesn't want a baby, it can feel like a huge relief, like having your whole life given back to you.
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The next step in my life is hopefully meeting a nice guy and getting married.
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The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.
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My parents divorced when I was very, very young, but they maintained an incredibly amicable relationship. They were great partners, they were great parents, and they were great friends throughout my whole life until I was about 25, at which point they realized that they could relinquish; they could call it and move on.
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I'm very lucky, I'm happy with life because my experiences led me to do what I had to do. I don't have any regrets whatsoever.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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I have both joyful and heartbreaking moments in life, even now. Stardom doesn't give us everything.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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Working out should be a key part of your life but not your whole life. When it is all a man could talk about, it becomes too much.
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Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.
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Recreating the experience of, say, bereavement in my own head is pretty rough. I was used to switching off from emotions every day of my working life as a journalist, but in fiction, you have to feel it 100%, or else it's a flat experience for the reader.
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Make the hard ones look easy and the easy ones look hard.
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I've always been aware of my health - when you are having to go on stage and perform, you need to be feeling good - but when I was diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, I became really, really conscious of my health.
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When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for adults. The books that get us through our childhood stay with us for life.
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There is nothing more important in life than love.
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'Star Wars' hasn't changed my life at all.
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Intellectuals are people who manage the world in their head. They look at life and try to see some kind of truth, and if they cannot find it, they attempt to create it.
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If the angel Gabriel came to me and said, 'Look, I'm willing to take your soul now and give it back to you at any period of time in the history of the nation of Israel, from the very beginning to this very day' - I think I would not think of any other time except for when Moses brought down the Ten Commandments from Mount Sinai.
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There's nothing pretty about ice. Ice grows nothing. But we've got this in our minds that we've got to make everything cold.
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Relationships between governments are important, but relationships between people are the real foundation of mutual understanding.
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Let's not let our fear of dementia deepen our fear of dementia.
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Who looks in the sun will see no light else; but also he will see no shadow. Our life revolves unceasingly, but the centre is ever the same, and the wise will regard only the seasons of the soul.
