C. Elizabeth Quotes

Proust has pointed out that the predisposition to love creates it's own objects: is this not also true of fear?

Man in Canadian art is rarely in command of his environment or ever at home in it.

Earth changes but thy soul and God stand sure.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Just for a handful of silver he left us Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat.

All we are asked to bear we can bear. That is a law of the spiritual life. The only hindrance to the working of this law as of all benign laws is fear.

It is never any good dwelling on goodbyes. It is not the being together that it prolongs it is the parting.

Oh to be in England Now that April's there.

Peace ... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self made possible.

Out of the chill and the shadow Into the thrill and the shine Out of the dearth and the famine Into the fullness divine.

My mother used to say "He who angers you conquers you."

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted when you find it taken for granted you are unnerved.

Good to forgive Best to forget.

The richer your friends the more they will cost you.

Both within the family and without our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to become.

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.

My friend and I have built a wall Between us thick and wide: The stones of it are laid in scorn And plastered high with pride.

The particular human chain we're a part of is central to our individual identity.

Silences have a climax when you have got to speak.

God's in His Heaven - All's right with the world!

As in heaven Your will is punctually performed so may it be done on earth by all creatures particularly in me and by me.

The Father most tender Father of all my immense God-I His atom.

He is more within us than we are ourselves.

A caress is better than a career.

Treat a horse like a woman and a woman like a horse. And they'll both win for you.

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Much misconstruction and bitterness are spared to him who thinks naturally upon what he owes to others rather than on what he ought to expect from them.

In a great romance each person plays a part the other really likes.

The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap it consoles it distracts it excites it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

Open my heart and you will see Graved inside of it "Italy."

Love doesn't make the world go round Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

Exceptional talent does not always win its reward unless favoured by exceptional circumstances.

I must have something to engross my thoughts some object in life which will fill this vacuum and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart.

Oh to be in England Now that April's there.

Some people are molded by their admirations others by their hostilities.

Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.

Let no one 'til his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work Until the day's out and the labor done: Then bring your gauges.

I give the fight up let there be an end A privacy an obscure nook for me I want to be forgotten even by God.

And each man stands with his face in the light of his own drawn sword. Ready to do what a hero can.

And hearts have been broken from harsh words spoken That sorrow can ne'er set right.

Habit is not mere subjugation it is a tender tie when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness.

The world is not run by thought nor by imagination but by opinion.

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas-that's what my grandma taught me.

I don't like my voice. I don't like the way I look. I don't like the way I move. I don't like the way I act. I mean period. So you know I don't like myself.

I feel when people say 'bigger and better' they should say 'bigger and badder'.

If you look at life one way there is always cause for alarm.

To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or reformers-or both.

God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face. A gauntlet with a gift in't.