Quotes to inspire and reflect

Their plans were improved with the best advice. J. R.

 

We are never late. We arrive precisely when we mean to. J. R.

 

The difficulty in life is the choice.

 

There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumor of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone. J. R. R.

I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.

Death tugs at my ear and says: "Live, I am coming.

If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. St.

Yet such is off the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere. J. R.

 

The life of the law has not been logic but experience.

Every pursuit is great when greatly pursued.

The Darkness has begun. There will be no dawn. J.R.R.

 

The world has changed. I see it in the water. I feel it in the Earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember it. J. R. R.

The board is set; the pieces are moving. We come to it at last...
The great battle of our time. J. R. R.

 

The greater man the greater courtesy.

But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable. E. M.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. J. R. R.

 

The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair; and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. J.R.R.

 

Little by little, one travels far. J. R. R.

The world changes, and all that once was strong now proves unsure. J. R. R.

 

The crime of suicide lies in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind. E. M.

 

Can I ever know you or you know me?

Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.

Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful? E. M.

 

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our own particular path than we have yet got ourselves. E. M.

 

Beat a man with the strength of your argument, not with the strength of your arm.

His honour rooted in dishonor stood, and faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

Life is sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating. O.

 

The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.

When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?

Between two groups of men that want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds I see no remedy except force... It seems to me that every society rests on the death of men.

The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way.

 

Life is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain.

 

Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.

When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

Freedom is a clear conscience.

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to. J. R. R.

 

When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. J. R. R.

The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination. J. R. R.

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I want to see the manager." William S.

All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost. J. R. R.

 

The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.

To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.

 

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends. J.R.R.

 

Quality is never an accident. Willa A.