Henry David Thoreau

If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Be not simply good – be good for something.

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

A man’s ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.

Jealousy, jealousy, jealousy, jealousy get the best of me.

You don’t measure love in time. You measure love in transformation. Sometimes the longest connections yield little growth, while the briefest of encounters change everything. The heart doesn’t wear a watch.

I know you’re dying to meet me, but I can just tell you this. Baby, as soon as you meet me, you’ll wish that you never did.

The opposite of love isn’t hate. It isn’t even indifference. It’s fear.

When you fall in love, you wanna share it with people but you know there are some things that you need to keep to yourself, ’cause privacy makes things last longer, I feel.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Everything I know, I know because of love.

Love creates an ‘us’ without destroying a ‘me’.

We may tell ourselves that love is not really available. But the deeper truth is that we don’t entirely trust it, and therefore have a hard time fully opening to it or letting it all the way into us. This disconnects us from our own heart, exacerbating our sense of love’s scarcity.

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

My demons are begging me to open up my mouth.

Sometimes the heart is deceiving.

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.

It’s amazing what passes for love these days – crows parading as blue jays.

Provided that he only broke you into pieces, you still have it all, like a pizza in slices, every. bite, delicious. You may not feel whole, but you are no less because of a feeling.