I post these on my FLICKR profile: “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” ― Mahatma Gandhi “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” ― Maya Angelou Maya Angelou...." When someone shows you who they are, believe them." Your level of success in life can be measured by your tolerance. Always adhere to your morals and standards. Expecting others to have the same values may cost you friendships but saves you the ache of loss when you find you are not amongst friends after all. You must care about others, before they'll care about you. Be kind to one another. Life is a gift!

page 1 Henry David Thoreau Quotes American - Author July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862 The language of friendship is not words but meanings. Henry David Thoreau It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. Henry David Thoreau Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams. Henry David Thoreau 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. Henry David Thoreau Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. Henry David Thoreau An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. Henry David Thoreau Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves. Henry David Thoreau This world is but a canvas to our imagination. Henry David Thoreau You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Henry David Thoreau The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. Henry David Thoreau True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. Henry David Thoreau Wealth is the ability to fully experience life. Henry David Thoreau It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise. Henry David Thoreau It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about? Henry David Thoreau I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. Henry David Thoreau What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. Henry David Thoreau If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. Henry David Thoreau The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. Henry David Thoreau Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence. Henry David Thoreau Truths and roses have thorns about them. Henry David Thoreau If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thoreau Men have become the tools of their tools. Henry David Thoreau I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. Henry David Thoreau Goodness is the only investment that never fails. Henry David Thoreau Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. Henry David Thoreau If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. Henry David Thoreau Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. Henry David Thoreau Never look back unless you are planning to go that way. Henry David Thoreau Live your life, do your work, then take your hat. Henry David Thoreau Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. Henry David Thoreau Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still. Henry David Thoreau If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. Henry David Thoreau In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood. Henry David Thoreau If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. Henry David Thoreau To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Henry David Thoreau There is no remedy for love but to love more. Henry David Thoreau Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around. Henry David Thoreau I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. Henry David Thoreau It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know. Henry David Thoreau Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh. Henry David Thoreau Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape! Henry David Thoreau The bluebird carries the sky on his back. Henry David Thoreau Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. Henry David Thoreau We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. Henry David Thoreau There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature. Henry David Thoreau Things do not change; we change. Henry David Thoreau Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Henry David Thoreau As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. Henry David Thoreau Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. Henry David Thoreau I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now. Henry David Thoreau Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. Henry David Thoreau The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. Henry David Thoreau Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new. Henry David Thoreau The savage in man is never quite eradicated. Henry David Thoreau Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify. Henry David Thoreau I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. Henry David Thoreau While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings. Henry David Thoreau Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. Henry David Thoreau It is never too late to give up our prejudices. Henry David Thoreau Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another? Henry David Thoreau The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them. Henry David Thoreau Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it. Henry David Thoreau Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant? Henry David Thoreau Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. Henry David Thoreau Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. Henry David Thoreau Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. Henry David Thoreau What is once well done is done forever. Henry David Thoreau 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. Henry David Thoreau Live the life you've dreamed. Henry David Thoreau The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star. Henry David Thoreau Be not simply good - be good for something. Henry David Thoreau I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. Henry David Thoreau It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. Henry David Thoreau That government is best which governs least. Henry David Thoreau Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it? Henry David Thoreau None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. Henry David Thoreau Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand. Henry David Thoreau The perception of beauty is a moral test. Henry David Thoreau In wildness is the preservation of the world. Henry David Thoreau Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. Henry David Thoreau I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live and could not spare any more time for that one. Henry David Thoreau To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea. Henry David Thoreau I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark. Henry David Thoreau There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life. Henry David Thoreau The heart is forever inexperienced. Henry David Thoreau Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. Henry David Thoreau There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself. Henry David Thoreau There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. Henry David Thoreau Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something. Henry David Thoreau When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest. Henry David Thoreau The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. Henry David Thoreau We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn. Henry David Thoreau Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces. Henry David Thoreau Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated. Henry David Thoreau There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before. Henry David Thoreau It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes. Henry David Thoreau Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years. Henry David Thoreau I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid. Henry David Thoreau The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest. Henry David Thoreau The universe is wider than our views of it. Henry David Thoreau A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. Henry David Thoreau Dreams are the touchstones of our character. Henry David Thoreau Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Henry David Thoreau Only that day dawns to which we are awake. Henry David Thoreau Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them. Henry David Thoreau We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. Henry David Thoreau The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer. Henry David Thoreau I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness. Henry David Thoreau Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. Henry David Thoreau Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe. Henry David Thoreau If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Henry David Thoreau If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life. Henry David Thoreau How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it. Henry David Thoreau Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are. Henry David Thoreau I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. Henry David Thoreau I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. Henry David Thoreau Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. Henry David Thoreau It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature. Henry David Thoreau Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself. Henry David Thoreau What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? Henry David Thoreau How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. Henry David Thoreau There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. Henry David Thoreau Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all. Henry David Thoreau What is called genius is the abundance of life and health. Henry David Thoreau What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new. Henry David Thoreau 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. Henry David Thoreau If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated? Henry David Thoreau 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. Henry David Thoreau It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear. Henry David Thoreau It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. Henry David Thoreau Men are born to succeed, not to fail. Henry David Thoreau What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party. Henry David Thoreau Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something. Henry David Thoreau Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it. Henry David Thoreau Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him. Henry David Thoreau All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man. Henry David Thoreau Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors. Henry David Thoreau Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them. Henry David Thoreau If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see. Henry David Thoreau I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls. Henry David Thoreau It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive. Henry David Thoreau Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. Henry David Thoreau Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Henry David Thoreau A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars. Henry David Thoreau Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. Henry David Thoreau 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. Henry David Thoreau That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest. Henry David Thoreau The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run. Henry David Thoreau How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? Henry David Thoreau The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument. Henry David Thoreau If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself. Henry David Thoreau We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches. Henry David Thoreau To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle. Henry David Thoreau There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted. Henry David Thoreau The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected. Henry David Thoreau As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution. Henry David Thoreau There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect. Henry David Thoreau A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend. Henry David Thoreau In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high. Henry David Thoreau It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all. Henry David Thoreau If misery loves company, misery has company enough. Henry David Thoreau Simplify, simplify. Henry David Thoreau '

I was born and grew up in Frankfurt, Goethe was part of my learning & my environment. The story of Faust, somewhat simplified, was one of the tales Mother told her children. I read the quotes early this morning with my coffee, butdidn't comment then - had to go out and water and other outdoor work was needed. Having a serious heat-wave, it's 105 right now.

Laurence Sterne Quotes Irish - Novelist November 24, 1713 - March 18, 1768 Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners. Laurence Sterne In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself. Laurence Sterne Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other. Laurence Sterne Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at. Laurence Sterne Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting! Laurence Sterne God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb. Laurence Sterne Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest. Laurence Sterne So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil. Laurence Sterne Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason. Laurence Sterne Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not. Laurence Sterne Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature. Laurence Sterne The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. Laurence Sterne Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood. Laurence Sterne I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor. Laurence Sterne 'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and of obstinacy in a bad one. Laurence Sterne An English man does not travel to see English men. Laurence Sterne Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current. Laurence Sterne I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it. Laurence Sterne An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand. Laurence Sterne Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy. Laurence Sterne People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy. Laurence Sterne Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness. Laurence Sterne People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy. Laurence Sterne But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it. Laurence Sterne One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct. Laurence Sterne Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas. Laurence Sterne Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions. Laurence Sterne I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life. Laurence Sterne The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance. Laurence Sterne Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together. Laurence Sterne It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at either end provided there is a sufficient wick standing out. Laurence Sterne Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation. Laurence Sterne A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one. Laurence Sterne What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation! And unbutton another! Laurence Sterne I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me. Laurence Sterne For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies. Laurence Sterne When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain. Laurence Sterne When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains. Laurence Sterne Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves. Laurence Sterne In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavour to wear as much of the appearance of it, as the case will well let them. Laurence Sterne There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture. Laurence Sterne Alphonse Karr Quotes French - Critic November 24, 1808 - September 29, 1890 Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses. Alphonse Karr The more things change, the more they are the same. Alphonse Karr We can invent only with memory. Alphonse Karr If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers. Alphonse Karr Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty. Alphonse Karr Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided. Alphonse Karr If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious. Alphonse Karr Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. Alphonse Karr Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else. Alphonse Karr I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked. Alphonse Karr Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others. Alphonse Karr Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end. Alphonse Karr Carlo Collodi Quotes Italian - Writer November 24, 1826 - October 26, 1890 Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. It was not an expensive piece of wood. Far from it. Just a common block of firewood, one of those thick, solid logs that are put on the fire in winter to make cold rooms cozy and warm. Carlo Collodi How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child. Carlo Collodi At such a loving invitation, Pinocchio, with one leap from the back of the orchestra, found himself in the front rows. With another leap, he was on the orchestra leader's head. With a third, he landed on the stage. Carlo Collodi A boy's appetite grows very fast, and in a few moments the queer, empty feeling had become hunger, and the hunger grew bigger and bigger, until soon he was as ravenous as a bear. Carlo Collodi When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means. Carlo Collodi Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free! Without saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the road that was to take him back to the house of the lovely Fairy. Carlo Collodi How ridiculous I was as a Marionette! And how happy I am, now that I have become a real boy! Carlo Collodi A thousand woodpeckers flew in through the window and settled themselves on Pinocchio's nose. Carlo Collodi Pinocchio, spurred on by the hope of finding his father and of being in time to save him, swam all night long. Carlo Collodi Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Quotes French - Artist November 24, 1864 - September 9, 1901 The body of a beautiful woman is not made for love; it is too exquisite. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec My dear Mama, you are definitely the hen who hatched a famous duck. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec I have tried to do what is true and not ideal. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec I paint things as they are. I don't comment. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec I have always been a pencil. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Of course one should not drink much, but often. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec The cafes bore me; going downstairs is a nuisance. Painting and sleeping - that's all there is. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Never be tempted by water. The water tap should be sealed at lunchtime. If, for example, a sauce goes wrong, adding water doesn't help at all; one only achieves a taste of dishwater. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec The harmony of the luncheon is achieved by a combination of the two main courses which are the focus of the menu. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Philandering impedes, as everyone knows, the ability to concentrate. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Margaret Anderson Quotes American - Editor November 24, 1886 - October 18, 1973 In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person. Margaret Anderson Self-preservation is the first responsibility. Margaret Anderson Intellectuals are too sentimental for me. Margaret Anderson I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten. Margaret Anderson Life for me has been exactly what I thought it would be, a cake, which I have eaten and had too. Margaret Anderson My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years. Margaret Anderson It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane. Margaret Anderson I was as repelled by the French as I was attracted by their country. Margaret Anderson I defied nothing at all. I ignored the law because I didn't know it existed. It didn't occur to me that anyone would want to curb my inspiration. Margaret Anderson