C. Elizabeth Quotes

The longer I live the more conscious I am of human frailty, and of the constant, overwhelming need we all have of God’s grace.

There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger.

It takes a lot of grace and maturity to simply forgive, but a lot of healing takes place when you do.

Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well.

God only, who made us rich, can make us poor.

I dare not hope. I never was fainthearted before; but I cannot believe such a creature cares for me.

Those who are happy and successful themselves are too apt to make light of the misfortunes of others.

Anticipation was the soul of enjoyment.

The wage-earning class the world over are the victims of society.

Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst

Let tyrants fear, I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and good-will of my subjects.

I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.

Oh, must we dream our dreams and have them, too?

I'm vegetarian so eating right definitely gives me the energy you need.

Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony.

The love that moves the sun and the other stars.

But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be.

To her [Florence Nightingale] chiefly I owed the awakening to the fact that sanitation is the supreme goal of medicine its foundation and its crown.

To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.

The money you attract is the exact measure of value of the ideas you have succeeded in externalizing.

I may not be a lion,but I am lions cub and I have lion's heart

A good neighbor sometimes cuts your morning up to mince-meat of the very smallest talk, then helps to sugar her bohea at night with your reputation.

And if God choose I shall but love thee better after death.

The image of ourselves in the minds of others is the picture of a stranger we shall never see.

None of us are perfect, for which reason we should heed the voice of charity when it whispers in our ears, "Do not magnify the imperfections of others.

Hoping to live days of greater happiness, I forget that days of less happiness are passing by.

There is not enough tea in the world to calm me.

If I could, I'd wear my sneakers everywhere, even for dinners or events.

Woman's degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.

Everything good I've ever gotten in life, I only got because I gave something else up.

The true sin against the Holy Ghost is ingratitude.

If life gives you lemons, don't settle for simply making lemonade - make a glorious scene at a lemonade stand.

Affection! Affection is false.

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing.

[When opposed by leaders of her Council:] I will make you shorter by the head!

truth outlives pain, as the soul does life.

The world is like a dropped pie most of the time. Don't kill yourself trying to put it back together. Just grab a fork and eat some of it off the floor. Then carry on.

All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart.

We have learned that power is a positive force if it is used for positive purposes.

People say you should give until it hurts. I say you should give until it stops hurting. Know what I mean?

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.

What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed - and not for pay? Absurd - or insincere?

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.

Friends are a recompense for all the woes of the darkest pages of life.

Heaven is not like flying or swimming, but has something to do with blackness and a strong glare.

The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.

And then, in that regal silence, finally - I began to meditate on (and with) God.

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.