C. Elizabeth Quotes

One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy.

I never wanted to be the person that waited for a stranger to come to town - I wanted to be the stranger!

God wants us to be in joy, God wants us to be happy.

Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.

How often, in this cold and bitter world, is the warm heart thrown back upon itself! Cold, careless, are we of another's grief; we wrap ourselves in sullen selfishness.

You know the old adage: Plant an expectation, reap a disappointment.

Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.

Childhood, whose very happiness is love.

Fortunately, perhaps, I was completely ignorant of the orthodox theory of the disease polio-myelitis.

meditation vs prayer = listening vs talking

It is good to jest, but not to make a trade of jesting.

We all ended up somewhere with our various uncertain lives flapping about us in tatters and our pockets full of foreign coins.

The record of one's life must needs prove more interesting to him who writes it than to him who reads what has been written.

We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.

My tears are buried in my heart, like cave-locked fountains sleeping.

Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted.

We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?

I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception.

To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.

A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.

Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.

Holidays were invented so single women could overeat without feeling guilty.

What worked yesterday doesn't always work today.

Marriage is a great institution.

The gods are fond of the cryptic and dislike the evident.

I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.

Make good use of bad rubbish.

There's no trouble in this world so serious that it can't be cured with a hot bath, a glass of whiskey, and the Book of Common Prayer.

Dust off that Bible. It has the answers you are looking for, and its delights await you.

The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head.

Our actions, habits, character, and future are most definitely affected by our thoughts.

Laughter is just like champagne -- only without the headache afterwards.

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.

My heart was broken so badly last time that it still hurts. Isn't that crazy? To still have a broken heart almost two years after a love story ends?

We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.

Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark.

Don't know how I kept going. You just do. You have to, so you do.

I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.

Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

I've always wanted to be a spy, and frankly I'm a little surprised that British intelligence has never approached me.

I don't think it matters how many parents you've got, as long as those who are around make their presence a good one.

So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it.

Our errors and failings are chinks in the heart's armor through which our true colors can shine.

It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.

The only thing one can do one day one did not do the day before is to die.

I actually see myself in all my characters. In order to imagine what it feels like to be another person I have to use my own experiences and responses to the world.

Any wife will save you from purgatory, and a diligent one will secure heaven to you.

I'm not particularly keen on pity. Pity takes something away from grief. People think they're sharing it, but really they're just taking some. I prefer to keep my grief intact.

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.