Quotes by Authors - Page 217

They sicken of the calm that know the storm.
Dorothy Parker
I've had an unhappy life thank God.
Russell Baker
Too much happens ... Man performs engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.
William Faulkner
The struggle to the top is in itself enough to fulfill the human heart. Sisyphus should be regarded as happy.
Albert Camus
People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.
William McFee
Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
James Baldwin
I have an inward treasure born within me which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford.
Charlotte Brontë
An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men.
Ignazio Silone
Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
Ambrose Bierce
When Eve upon the first of men The apple pressed with specious cant Oh! what a thousand pities then That Adam was not adamant.
Thomas Hood
Whilst Adam slept Eve from his side arose Strange his first sleep would be his last repose.
Anonymous
Out of the strain of the doing Into the peace of the done.
Julia Woodruff
Be like the bird that passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight feels them give way beneath her and yet sings knowing that she hath wings.
Victor Hugo
My life is ... a mystery which I do not attempt to really understand as though 1 were led by the hand in a night where I see nothing but can fully depend on the love and protection of Him who guides me.
Thomas Merton
Be God or let God.
Anonymous
Wanna fly you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
Toni Morrison
God tests His real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones.
Katheryn Hulme
Doing what is right isn't the problem it's knowing what is right.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Whate'er we leave to God God does and blesses us.
Henry David Thoreau
I see not a step before me as I tread on another year But I've left the Past in God's keeping the Future His mercy shall clear And what looks dark in the distance may brighten as I draw near.
Mary Gardiner Brainard
Life is God's novel. Let him write it.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God "Thy will be done " and those to whom God says "All right then have it your way."
C.S. Lewis
Letting people be okay without us is how we get to be okay without them.
Merrit Malloy
The worst thing you can do is to try to cling to something that's gone or to recreate it.
Johnette Napolitano
Willfulness must give way to willingness and surrender. Mastery must yield to mystery.
Gerald G. May
For peace of mind resign as general manager of the universe.
Anonymous
Life is made up of desires that seem big and vital one minute and little and absurd the next. I guess we get what's best for us in the end.
Alice Caldwell Rice
Living upon a basis of unsatisfied demands we were in a state of continual disturbance and frustration. Therefore no peace was to be had unless we could find a means of reducing these demands.
Anonymous
It is easy and dismally enervating to think of opposition as merely perverse or actually evil-far more invigorating to see it as essential for honing the mind and as a positive good in itself. For the day that moral issues cease to be fought over is the day the word "human" disappears from the race.
Jill Tweedie
We cannot alter facts but we can alter our ways of looking at them.
Phyllis Bottome
People who make some other person part of their job are dangerous.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Coercion. The unpardonable crime.
Dorothy Miller Richardson
The best direction is the least possible direction.
Joan Manley
Nothing fruitful ever comes when plants are forced to flower in the wrong season.
Bette Bao Lord
Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good behave yourself and never mind the rest.
Beatrix Potter
No day is so bad it can't be fixed with a nap.
Carrie Snow
Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.
Natalie Goldberg
O golden Silence bid our souls be still and on the foolish fretting of our care lay thy soft touch of healing unaware!
Julia Dorr
Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt is already accomplished.
Amelia Barr
A guru might say that spiritual deepening involves a journey toward the unselfconscious living of life as it unfolds rather than toward a willful determination to make it happen.
John Fortunato
I began to have an idea of my life not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.
Joanna Field
Coercive power is the curse of the universe coactive power the enrichment and advancement of every human soul.
Mary Parker Follett
You have striven so hard and so long to compel life. Can't you now slowly change and let life slowly drift into you ... let the invisible life steal into you and slowly possess you.
D.H. Lawrence
If it is your time love will track you down like a cruise missile.
Lynda Barry
It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.
Doris Lessing
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds for love is measured by its own fullness not by its reception.
Harold Loukes
In all human affairs there are efforts and there are results and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.
James Lane Allen
No way exists in the present to accurately determine the future effect of the least of our actions.
Gerald Jampolsky
That man is blest who does his best and leaves the rest do not worry.
Charles F. Deems
It is not yours to finish the task but neither are you free to take no part in it.
Anonymous
Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.
William McFee
It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to.
Agatha Christie
He will hew the line of right let the chips fall where they may.
Roscoe Conkling
The success of your presentation will be judged not by the knowledge you send but by what the listener receives.
Lily Walters
God doesn't make orange juice God makes oranges.
Jesse Jackson
The man who has done nothing but wait for his ship to come in has already missed the boat.
Anonymous
The life of the spirit is centrally and essentially a life of action. Spirituality is something done not merely something believed or known or experienced.
Mary McDermott Shideler
The door of opportunity won't open unless you do some pushing.
Anonymous
If faith without works is dead willingness without action is fantasy.
Anonymous
Life happens at the level of events not words.
Alfred Adler