Quotes by Authors - Page 197

Any path is only a path and there is no affront to oneself or to others in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you.
Carlos Castañeda
If you board the wrong train it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It is only an error in judgement to make a mistake but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
Christian Bovee
Duration is not a test of true or false.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
How does one become a butterfly? she asked pensively. "You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar."
Trina Paulus
Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it-torn up to irrecoverable tatters.
Samuel Butler
Compromise if not the spice of life is its solidity.
Phyllis McGinley
This Mouse must give up one of his Mouse ways of seeing things in order that he may grow.
Hyemeyohsts Storm
One must lose one's life in order to find it.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
When patterns are broken new worlds emerge.
Tuli Kupferberg
We must learn to view change as a natural phenomenon-to anticipate it and to plan for it. The future is ours to channel in the direction we want to go ... we must continually ask ourselves "What will happen if ... ?" or better still "How can we make it happen?"
Lisa Taylor
Changes are not predictable but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
Gail Sheehy
If you have no will to change it you have no right to criticize it.
Anonymous
Christians are supposed not merely to endure change nor even to profit by it but to cause it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
I never saw a Purple Cow I never hope to see one: But I can tell you anyhow I'd rather see than be one.
Gelett Burgess
I am for freedom of religion and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another.
Thomas Jefferson
In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me As He died to make men holy let us die to make men free While God is marching on.
Julia Ward Howe
Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose Bierce
The small courtesies sweeten life the greater ennoble it.
Christian Nestell Bovee
The moment one definitely commits oneself then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help that would never otherwise have occurred. A stream of events issues from the decision raising unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamt would have come his way.
W.H.Murray
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Winston Churchill
Trouble like the hill ahead straightens out when you advance upon it.
Marcelene Cox
When we know what we want to prove we go out and find our facts. They are always there.
Pearl S. Buck
Truth is not introduced into the individual from without but was within him all the time.
Søren Kierkegaard
We have what we seek. It is there all the time and if we give it time it will make itself known to us.
Thomas Merton
The spirit of man is an inward flame a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.
Margot Asquith
We all carry it within us: supreme strength the fullness of wisdom unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted and cannot be destroyed.
Huston Smith
If you have enough fantasies you're ready in the event that something happens.
Sheila Ballantyne
Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.
William Faulkner
What one has to do usually can be done.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The incurable ills are the imaginary ills
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
All we are asked to bear we can bear. That is a law of the spiritual life. The only hindrance to the working of this law as of all benign laws is fear.
Elizabeth Goudge
When it comes to the pinch human beings are heroic.
George Orwell
I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude.
Judith M. Knowlton
Life only demands from you the strength you possess.
Dag Hammarskjöld
Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.
Liz Carpenter
In this unbelievable universe in which we live there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines reaching into infinity meet somewhere yonder.
Pearl S. Buck
Fatalism is a lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.
Natalie Clifford Barney
Leap and the net will appear.
Julie Cameron
The Bible tells us that a sparrow does not fall without God's notice. I know he will help us meet our responsibilities through his guidance.
Michael Cardone
With them I gladly shared my all and learned the great truth that where God guides He provides.
Frank N. D. Buchman
What God expects us to attempt He also enables us to achieve.
Stephen Olford
Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.
Dorothea Brande
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too weak to bear it.
Victor Hugo
Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms.
H. G. Bohn
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
Mignon McLaughlin
I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
Lyndon B. Johnson
It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
Erica Jong
Catch courage.
Carolyn Heilbrun
There are some women who seem to be born without fear just as there are people who are born without the ability to feel pain. ... Providence appears to protect such women maybe out of astonishment.
Margaret Atwood
Courage is very important. Like a muscle it is strengthened by use.
Ruth Gordon
In true courage there is always an element of choice of an ethical choice and of anguish and also of action and deed. There is always a flame of spirit in it a vision of some necessity higher than oneself.
Brenda Ueland
Freedom is not for the timid.
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.
Mignon McLaughlin
If you are brave too often people will come to expect it of you.
Mignon McLaughlin
There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract but not for the concrete.
Helen Keller
Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living.
Douglas Malloch
Courage is the footstool of the Virtues upon which they stand.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation.
Nigel Dennis