Quotes about Expression
We see him or her as a limited expression of an unlimited love.
— Henri Nouwen
Life is just a little opportunity for you during a few years to say, I love you, too.
— Henri Nouwen
The soul of the artist cannot remain hidden.
— Henri Nouwen
People who read your ideas tend to think that your writings reflect your life.
— Henri Nouwen
This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
— Henry David Thoreau
Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
— 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
Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.
— Henry David Thoreau
I am thinking by what long discipline and at what cost a man learns to speak simply at last.
— Henry David Thoreau
An artist is first an amateur.
— Henry David Thoreau
If you can speak what you will never hear,—if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things
— Henry David Thoreau
I cast my vote, perchance, as I think right; but I am not vitally concerned that that right should prevail. I am willing to leave it to the majority.
— Henry David Thoreau