Quotes by British Authors - Page 545

How stubborn life is,It clings like silver in our souls.
Scott Hastie
We too can repair our cracks with goldAnd glow again.Crazed by life,More beautiful than ever before.
Scott Hastie
Everyday can be extraordinaryAnd ripe,Like a flower burst,If the will is there.
Scott Hastie
Sense howEven the smooth stones acheWith stories of their ownIn the shuddering light of day.
Scott Hastie
Ultimately not one amongst usWill ever be denied that,The glimmer of a chance to shine.
Scott Hastie
When in love or inspired,An eternal kiss from the divineAwaits us all.
Scott Hastie
Once spun,The silken thread of all our aspirationsRemains intact,It can never be broken.
Scott Hastie
Nothing that truly mattersCan ever evaporate,Be excised,Burnt out of your soul.
Scott Hastie
Life, wherever it leads,Will always be the same,It begs for the best of you.
Scott Hastie
Birth our night into dayAnd bathe it clean,So that beloved things can glowTogether in a litter of light.
Scott Hastie
Funny how in a material world full of pundits and economists obsessed with assets and liabilities -personally, economically and globally - few speak about the greatest of all these…YOU.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
Life's a one way ticket
Colin Tegerdine
Always make time to eat. Always. There’s enough starving children in the world without adding to their number
Diane Samuels
I think it is a wise person who does not answer the door to uninvited police officers. Who knows what kind of crazy person could be standing there with a loaded gun!
Steven Magee
The ball and chain of creativity has no key
Benny Bellamacina
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.
John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
The question is never 'who am I?' It's 'who do I want to be?
Dianna Hardy
One of the most devastating symptoms of pride is the unwillingness to forgive.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
Where there is great love there is great harmony of thought.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
Always let your talent and tenacity do the talking. Never your tantrums or sense of self righteousness or entitlement. For it is your talent and tenacity that will carve out, shape and seal your possibilities and destiny.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
We are all meant to be a little broken, it's just about finding someone who will take the time to mend you. Someone who loves you enough to want to find the pieces that may have fallen from you and glue you back together. This is what love is, to restore someone when they have been broken and chipped, and all the while, feeling content whilst mending them...
Seja Majeed
Never give a sucker an even break, but don't cheat a friend.
Cary Grant Mr. Lucky
A curator treasures aged bibles, but the wise treasure the wisdom within.
Christian Hunt
YOUR LIFE IS WHAT YOU CHOOSE IT TO BE FROM EVERY MOMENT ONWARDS, WITHIN THE LIMITS OF YOUR CONTROL. AT TIMES YOU WILL HAVE TO REGROUP AND ADAPT DUE TO ISSUES OUTSIDE OF YOUR CONTROL. BUT MANY OF LIFE’S OUTCOMES ARE DETERMINED BY ITS CHIEF MASTER: YOU!
Jonny Oates
A lesson in folly is worth two in wisdom.
Tom Stoppard
Every day I grow in the wisdom that my soul is vibrationally connected to the Universe.
Debbie A. Anderson
A teacher is a sower of seed, a spiritual agriculturist, while he who teaches himself is the wise farmer of his own mental plot.
James Allen
Just as stars shine brightest in the darkest night, your joy blazes brilliantly through life’s problems when you count them as joy.
Elizabeth George
A joyful person is one who deals daily with their problems, faithfully and obediently counting their trials as joy.
Elizabeth George
The sky is a blue so clean it verges on joy.
Nadeem Aslam
God had spoken to His people through His Word. It had humbled them in their sins, but it had lifted them up to see the grace and mercy of God, and then had directed them into a new life of obedience. In all our desperate searching for ways to find joy, God is telling us that we will never find joy like the joy of knowing God, being humbled in our sins, experiencing His grace, and walking in a life of obedience.
Colin S. Smith
Cultivate a spirit of joy and praise. Not only will you light up your own heart, but the hearts of those around you.Always look for the good in people. In most cases you will find it.
Loretta Livingstone
Miss Fairlie laughed with a ready good-humour, which broke out as brightly as if it had been part of the sunshine above us…
Wilkie Collins
Wisdom is the God-given ability to see life with rare objectivity and to handle life with rare stability.
Elizabeth George
The most important thing you must decide to do every day is put the Lord first.
Elizabeth George
To be God's people, to love Him fervently with whole hearts, is our sole desire.
Elizabeth George
I am afloat on a sea of foaming joy and delight.
J.P. Martin
Begin each day with God. It will change your priorities.
Elizabeth George
Each new day is another chapter in the unfolding promise of deliverance and life.
Elizabeth George
No question, no problem, no concern, is too big or too small for God to handle!
Elizabeth George
Personal discipline is a most powerful character quality and one worthy of dedicating your life to nurturing.
Elizabeth George
Model the qualities that you want your children to show to each other.
Elizabeth George
The Bible is the ultimate book of wisdom and advice.
Elizabeth George
I want God to be first in my life, so I’m putting Him first in my life today.
Elizabeth George
When you choose to work with a willing, happy heart, you become a beautiful source of joy to all.
Elizabeth George
Joy is a sure sign of the presence of God in your life.
Elizabeth George
Let every hindrance to joy become the soil out of which joy blossoms.
Elizabeth George
In Sarasota, Florida, Stephen King reminded me of the joy of just writing every day.
Neil Gaiman
When you don't have the words to say He hears your heart. When you feel like no one understands He carries your pain. When hope seems lost God whispers "Joy is coming.
Rachel Hamilton
Laughter! I remember laughter. I did laughter a lot, he thought. These colours spinning around them are matching their mirth, changing from moment to moment, flaring out as they run and throw and catch. There are silver joy-waves rippling about them
Esme Ellis
There is more reason to say grace before beginning a book than there is to say it before beginning to dine.
Charles Lamb
The moment that you give gratitude is the moment that you find happiness. The moment that you lose gratitude your happiness will vanish and slip through your fingers
Rasheed Ogunlaru
I believe it all. If I seem not to, it is only that my joy is too great to let my belief settle itself.
C.S. Lewis
And the poor lady, so small in her black satin, shrivelled up and sallow, with her funny corkscrew curls, took the little boy on her lap and put her arms around him and wept as though her heart would break. But her tears were partly tears of happiness, for she felt that the strangeness between them was gone. She loved him now with a new love because he had made her suffer.
W Somerset Maugham
I would never attempt to dissuade anyone from reading a book. But please, if you're reading something that's killing you, put it down and read something else, just as you would reach for the remote if you weren't enjoying a TV program...All I know is that you can get very little from a book that is making you weep with the effort of reading it. You won't remember it, and you'll be less likely to choose a book over [insert popular contemporary TV program] next time you have a choice.
Nick Hornby
No role brings greater joy or blessing than being a parent.
Elizabeth George
The joy came from finding at last what hatred was made for.
C.S. Lewis
She looks very virtuous and very melancholy.""Virtue is like the precious odors, most fragrant when it is crushed.
Emmuska Orczy
I feel like spring after winter, and sun on the leaves; and like trumpets and harps and all the songs I have ever heard!
J.R.R. Tolkien
The sun dances in her and she has an immense joy of life
James Clavell