Henry David Thoreau Quotes

I've been thinking a lot about space. It was one of those slow-motion realisations how little we are, how far we are from everything else in our solar system. This idea of distance started kind of haunting me. How do you go forth and accomplish things but not end up leaving everything you started out with in the dust?

Everything's got space between it, the planets, trees, your eyes. Your eyes get too close together, it's a whole different world. You can lose perspective.

Most of my closest friends have come to visit me in Hyderabad. So I feel I'm always linked with Mumbai.

There are people I love in Nashville and would not want to go a day without talking to, but I want to see the world.

My earth is somebody's ceiling

Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other.

This is what I tell my students: step outside of your tiny little world. Step inside of the tiny little world of somebody else. And then do it again and do it again and do it again. And suddenly, all these tiny little worlds, they come together in this complex web. And they build a big, complex world.

Everything has to do with geography.

We see parts of each other, and we put them together. But if I want to see you in totality, you need to move away; we need space between us. Across the street, I can see all of you at once, but then I also see this huge vista of space surrounding you, coming in and compressing you.

When you live far away, home looks a little different every time.

Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre of the earth.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

I could not have told where those damned islands were within 2,000 miles.

I do use FaceTime because I'm frequently isolated from friends and my boyfriend, so I get that.

I don't think about it. I have always been linked up with everybody.

I miss having my mom and close friends around. Thank God for Skype and Face-Time, which keep me connected... but interacting digitally can't come close to the feeling of being hugged by my mom or getting together for a meal with my friends on the same table.

When you live away from your family, your friends and faculty become your family.

A show is good when there is a meeting of time and space, when time and space become irrelevant.

A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it said, 'Wish you were here.

The world is a globe — the farther you sail, the closer to home you are.

But it's a big ocean. It's an even bigger world. And maybe we've gotten as close as we're supposed to get.

Forsooth, brethren, fellowship is heaven and lack of fellowship is hell; fellowship is life and lack of fellowship is death; and the deeds that ye do upon the earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them.