Henry David Thoreau Quotes

It is people who are important, not the masses.

Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.

Every single human soul has more meaning and value than the whole of history.

The whole world is not worth one soul.

No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing.

People who mattered could not take the humdrum world. But this was not the world, it was enchantment; and all of it was mine.

Every individual matters and has a role to play in this life on Earth.

We want to help everyone find meaning in their life and help translate the story that each person actually matters in the world.

Let's just say that I am aware my style has meaning for some people.

I don't care what the stars say about how small we are. One, even the smallest, weakest, most insignificant one, matters.

If a man tried to take his time on earth and prove before he died, what one man's life could be worth, well I wonder what would happen to this world?

In deference to such spectacular carnage it is perhaps perverse to dwell upon one person's death, but we are creatures so constituted that the passing of one friend or one acquaintance has a profounder effect that that of 100,000 strangers. If there is any metaphorical truth in the Jewish proverb that he who saves one life saves the whole world, then there is equal metaphorical truth in the proposition that when one person dies, the whole world dies with them.

No one on earth is so boring and insignificant that he or she is not worth writing or reading about...One thing's for sure—no one but you can be the hero of your story.

We have to believe that every person counts, counts as a creative force that can move mountains.

I felt freed to please myself, to find my way as I would, in a world that was much vaster than I had realized before, in which I was but one star-gleam, one wavelet, among multitudes. My happiness mattered not a whit more than the next person's - or the next fish's, or the next grass-blade's! - and not a whit less.

As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is, that each of us has something that no one else has-or ever will have-something inside that is unique to all time.

The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole.

Every human being is a volume, worthy to be studied.

Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.

I happen to believe that most people - and this is where I differ from many of my contemporaries, or at least as they express themselves - I think that virtually every human being is dramatically interesting. Not only is he dramatically interesting, he is a creature of stature whoever he is.

It is up to each of us to search for and build upon the gifts which God has given. We must remember that each of us is made in the image of God, that there are no unimportant persons. Everyone matters to God and to his fellowmen.

Every individual has a unique contribution.

I could never find two people who are perfectly equal: one will always be more valuable than the other. And many people, as a matter of fact, simply have no value.

By measuring individual human worth, the novelist reveals the full enormity of the State

In God's world the individual counts. Therefore, Christian art should deal with the individual.