2. May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!
3. Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.
Excerpt from Wikipedia: Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau; July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American author, poet, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, philosopher, and leading transcendentalist. He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay, Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state.
Thoreau’s books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions were his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern day environmentalism. His literary style interweaves close natural observation, personal experience, pointed rhetoric, symbolic meanings, and historical lore; while displaying a poetic sensibility, philosophical austerity, and “Yankee” love of practical detail. He was also deeply interested in the idea of survival in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay; at the same time imploring one to abandon waste and illusion in order to discover life’s true essential needs.
He was a lifelong abolitionist, delivering lectures that attacked the Fugitive Slave Law while praising the writings of Wendell Phillips and defending abolitionist John Brown. Thoreau’s philosophy of civil disobedience influenced the political thoughts and actions of such later figures as Leo Tolstoy, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Thoreau is sometimes cited as an individualist anarchist. Though Civil Disobedience seems to call for improving rather than abolishing government – “I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government” – the direction of this improvement aims at anarchism: “‘That government is best which governs not at all;’ and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.” Richard Drinnon partly blames Thoreau for the ambiguity, noting that Thoreau’s “sly satire, his liking for wide margins for his writing, and his fondness for paradox provided ammunition for widely divergent interpretations of ‘Civil Disobedience.’” He further points out that although Thoreau writes that he only wants “at once” a better government, that does not rule out the possibility that a little later he might favor no government.
1. A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
2. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
3. All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
4. An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
5. As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
6. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
7. Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
8. Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
9. Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
10. Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
11. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
12. How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
13. I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
14. If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
15. If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.
16. In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
17. It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?
18. It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
19. It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.
20. Live the life you’ve dreamed.
21. Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
22. The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
23. Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
24. What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
25. What’s the use of a fine house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
1. I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
2. Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable.
3. Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
4. Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another’s heart, or its flame burns low.
5. We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
—————————————- Excerpt from Wikipedia: Henry Ward Beecher (June 24, 1813 – March 8, 1887) was a prominent, Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, abolitionist, and speaker in the mid to late 19th century. An 1875 adultery trial in which he was accused of having an affair with a married woman was one of the most notorious American trials of the 19th century.[1] In 2007, The Most Famous Man in America: A Biography of Henry Ward Beecher by Debby Applegate won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.
1. A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.
2. A man’s true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
3. A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
4. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
5. All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
6. Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.
7. Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
8. Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
9. Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
10. Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
11. Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
12. Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
13. Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
14. Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
15. He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
16. Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
17. I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
18. I don’t like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.
19. In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
20. It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
21. It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
22. Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
23. Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
24. The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
25. The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
26. The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
27. You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.
Helen Keller love quotes, sayings and movie about her.
1. The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
2. When one door of happiness closes, another opens: but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
3. As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
4. It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
5. Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
6. What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
———————————————— Excerpt from Wikipedia: Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, political activist and lecturer. She was the first deaf and blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. The story of how Keller’s teacher, Annie Sullivan, broke through the isolation imposed by a near complete lack of language, allowing the girl to blossom as she learned to communicate, has become known worldwide through the dramatic depictions of the play and film The Miracle Worker.
A prolific author, Keller was well traveled and was outspoken in her opposition to war. She campaigned for women’s suffrage, workers’ rights, and socialism, as well as many other progressive causes.
1. Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
2. Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
3. I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
4. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
5. Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
6. No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
7. People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
8. Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.
9. Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
10. We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
11. I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
12. Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
13. Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
14. Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
15. I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
16. Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
17. Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
18. Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
19. I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
20. I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
21. Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
22. It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
23. Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
24. No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
25. One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
26. Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
27. Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.
28. Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!
29. While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.
Inspiring love quotes and sayings from famous people.
1. It is not how much you do, but how much Love you put into the doing that matters.
2. Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
3. If you think well of others, you will also speak well of others and to others. From the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. If your heart is full of love, you will speak of love.
8. Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
9. True love does not come by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. – Jason Jordan
10. Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
11. Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time… It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.
14. Love, like a river, will cut a new path whenever it meets an obstacle. – Crystal Middlemas
15. Love is not blind – It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less. – Will Moss
16. Love isn’t blind; it just only sees what matters. – William Curry
17. For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it. – Ivan Panin
18. Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference.
1. Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
4. To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you’re wrong, admit it; whenever you’re right, shut up. – Ogden Nash
5. Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he’ll fall asleep before you finish saying it. – Helen Rowland
6. When you make a sacrifice in marriage, you’re sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship. – Joseph Campbell
7. What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility. – Leo Tolstoy
8. When you have a baby, you set off an explosion in your marriage, and when the dust settles, your marriage is different from what it was. Not better, necessarily; not worse, necessarily; but different. – Nora Ephron
9. A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
10. The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It’s the ones that become the friendships that last.
11. Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.
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Excerpt from Wikipedia: Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau; July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American author, poet, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, philosopher, and leading transcendentalist. He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay, Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state.
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