Quotes to inspire and reflect

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.

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

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

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 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.

 

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

 

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

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.

 

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.

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.

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.

 

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

 

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

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.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

 

There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors with no aim beyond their facts are one-story men. Two-story men compare reason and generalize, using labors of the fact collectors as well as their own. Three-story men idealize, imagine, and predict. Their best illuminations come from above through the skylight.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.

Junk is the ultimate merchandise. The junk merchant does not sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to the product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise, he degrades and simplifies the client. William S.

Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.

 

Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith.

I think there are innumerable gods. What we here on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events. William S.

 

Because he once wrote, "We must love one another or die," he can command me to follow him. E.M.

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him. J. R. R.

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.