C. L. R. James Quotes
One of the advantages of defeat in life - maybe the main advantage - is that it provides an excuse for change. Defeat... invariably leads to new adventures.
When the first baby laughed for the first time the laugh broke into a million pieces and they all went skipping about. That was the beginning of fairies.
Faith is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.
The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weather is that which is woven of conviction.
Horror is a feeling that cannot last long human nature is incapable of supporting it.
The right to be a cussed fool Is safe from all devices human It's common (ez a gin'I rule) To every critter born of woman.
Good heavens of what uncostly material is our earthly happiness composed ... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.
You will never be the person you can be if pressure tension and discipline are taken out of your life.
Generally the man with a good wife or the woman with a good husband or the children with good parents discover too late the goodness they overlooked while it was in full bloom.
Should auld acquaintances be forgot And never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot And days o'auld lang syne?
Talent is that which is in a man's power genius is that in whose power a man is.
You cannot dream yourself into a character you must hammer and forge one for yourself.
Activity in back of a very small idea will produce more than inactivity and the planning of a genius.
To grow and know what one is growing towards-that is the source of all strength and confidence in life.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form of perhaps only some formula of peace.
True happiness we are told consists in getting out of one's self but the point is not only to get out you must stay out and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
Each honest calling each walk of life has its own elite its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes but in liking what one has to do.
Live all you can it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?
True happiness we are told consists in getting out of one's self. But the point is not only to get out you must stay out. And to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
Parenting at its best comes as naturally as laughter. It is automatic involuntary unconditional love.
No matter how lofty you are in your department the responsibility for what your lowliest assistant is doing is yours.
Three things in human life are important: The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.
Tolerance is a tremendous virtue but the immediate neighbours of tolerance are apathy and weakness.
Gin a body meets a body Comin' through the rye. Gin a body kiss a body Need a body cry?
All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from and to and why.
Every life is many days day after day. We walk through ourselves meeting robbers ghosts giants old men young men wives widows brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.
Let us be of good cheer remembering that misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
We have all been placed on this earth to discover our own path and we will never be happy if we live someone else's idea of life.