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.

Henry David Thoreau

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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.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Life
  • Baby
  • Child

• The next step in my life is hopefully meeting a nice guy and getting married.

  

  Tara Reid
  • Life
  • Guy
  • Nice

• 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.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Life
  • Important
  • Law

• 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.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • Life
  • Great
  • Friends

• 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.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Lucky

• Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Life
  • Picture
  • Painting

• I have both joyful and heartbreaking moments in life, even now. Stardom doesn't give us everything.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Life
  • Moments
  • Now

• I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Life
  • Mom
  • Daughter

• 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.

  

  Valerie Azlynn
  • Life
  • Man
  • Too Much

• Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Me

• 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.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Pretty

• Make the hard ones look easy and the easy ones look hard.

  

  Walter Hagen
  • Look
  • Easy
  • Hard

• 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.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Life
  • Good
  • Feeling

• 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.

  

  O. R. Melling
  • Life
  • Children
  • Childhood

• There is nothing more important in life than love.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Life
  • Important
  • Love

• 'Star Wars' hasn't changed my life at all.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Life
  • Star
  • My Life

• 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.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• 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.

  

  Yitzhak Navon
  • Time
  • History
  • Soul

• You'll be dedicated and that's what you should want to be in anything in life - whether it's sports or academics or your relationship. It all stems from finding that fun, that thrill, that excitement.

  

  Brandi Chastain
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Relationship

• I've always had this female-empowerment thing in the back of my mind - because I wanted my mother to be stronger, and she couldn't be. I thought, 'If I'm successful, I can change her life.'

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Life
  • Mind
  • She

• I shall find antiquity a rewarding study, if only because, while I am absorbed in it, I shall be able to turn my eyes from the troubles which for so long have tormented the modern world.

  

  Livy
  • World
  • Long
  • Eyes

• Surfing is such an amazing concept. You're taking on Nature with a little stick and saying, 'I'm gonna ride you!' And a lot of times Nature says, 'No you're not!' and crashes you to the bottom.

  

  Jolene Blalock
  • Littles
  • Surfing
  • Bottom

• 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.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Light