Amelia Barr Quotes

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.

Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.

Kindness is always fashionable.

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

Time is a very precious gift- so precious that it is only given to us moment by moment.

Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

Forethought spares afterthought.

Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition.

No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!

For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.

It is not that we have a soul, we are a soul.

Love, like destiny, loves surprises.

With renunciation life begins.

The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.

a little misgiving in the beginning of things, means much regret in the end of them.

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.

Old age is the verdict of life.

Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.

youth is always sure that change must mean something better.

But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?

Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.

Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.

Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.

Genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.

But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.

I have seen that every one forgives much in themselves that they find unpardonable in other people.

There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.

Laughter is always fatal to feeling.

To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly - I know not which is the greater.

What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.

Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.

We generally get the evil we expect.

One should not run on a new road.

the nighttime of the body is the daytime of the soul.

Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds it.

A good message will always find a messenger.

... money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome.

... the evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall.

move not in your anger; it is like putting to sea in a tempest.

Oh, the soul keeps its youth!

when we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again; and the fictions of thought and action assumed among men drop off like a garment.

There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.

... if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?

... trouble of all kinds is voluble, and has plenty of words, but happiness was never written down.

Men can bear all things but good days.