C. Elizabeth Quotes

I was wholly unprepared for the extraordinary attitude of the medical world in its readiness to condemn anything that smacked of reform or that ran contrary to approved methods of practice.

‎"There’s no such thing as mistakes – only a lack of foresight.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

I don't love you anymore", she whispered. "I don't love you at all." His throat closed. "It's all right, sweetheart. I love you enough for both of us.

I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins.

But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.

I would not open windows into men's souls.

you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead.

I felt more than ever the necessity of my mission. But I went home out of spirits, I hardly know why. I must work by myself all life long.

I, who so love a hermit life for a good part of the day, find myself living in public, and almost losing my identity.

Some of His children must go into the furnace to testify that the Son of God is there with them.

We can't reliably distinguish true memories from false memories.

But calm, white calm, was born into a swan.

I think it is really important to put out what you want so the world knows what to give you.

Michael Jackson is part of my heart. We would do anything for each other.

The first step in the elevation of women under all systems of religion is to convince them that the great Spirit of the Universe is in no way responsible for any of these absurdities.

This diagnosis is a reminder that this is the life you've got. And you're not getting another one. Whatever has happened, you have to take this life and treasure and protect it.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

If you don't like something, talk about something else that's great and maybe someone else will discover it and think it's great too.

My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it, Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done.

Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.

the demons that make a person afraid are the hardest to cast out.

You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.

Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.

That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.

God dwells within you, as you.

You feel the call. That's the important thing. Now answer it as fully as you can. Take the risk to let all that is in you, out. Escape into the open.

Bhuta ia, dewa ia. (Bali expression meaning Man is a demon, man is a god.)

The child in us is always there, you know, and it's the best part of us, the winged part that travels farthest.

Happy the man who lives long enough to acknowledge his ignorance

I've always had a complex about being taken seriously.

The British Constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

The seasons tell us, everything in organic life tells us, that there is no holding on; still, we try to do just that. Sometimes, though, we learn the kind of wisdom that celebrates the open hand.

So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly.

Now is the time for guts and guile.

Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company.

Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it.

The cure for unhappiness is happiness, I don't care what anyone says.

Much of my experience of life has cost me a great price and I wish to use it for strengthening and comforting other souls.

Repetition makes reputation.

Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i'm always missing someone or someplace or something, i'm always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. my life has been one long longing.

Benevolent patriarchy is still patriarchy.

You have to see human rights as an all-embracing concept. It could be something that would unite the world, if it could only be seen in that light.

I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?

Notwithstanding all the wrongs that slavery heaped upon me, I can bless it for one thing-youth's important lesson of self-reliance.

One tends to give one's fingers too little credit for their own good sense.

It is easier to recount grievances and slights than it is to set down a broad redress of such grievances and slights. The reason is that one fears to be thought of as an arrant braggart.