Will Compton Quotes

You can always control the results. You can always control your attitude and effort every day.

Truth is so impossible. Something has to be done for it.

I just know I want to be an example of what I believe in. I want to influence people. People that are young.

I'm a product of what I believe in.

Your mind is the most powerful weapon you have.

I think I feel on the whole that something's there trying to get out ... It's sort of trying to get out and wants help.

We are always children to our mothers.

The plot is not very important to me, though a novel must have one, of course. It's just a line to hang the washing on.

Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.

it is in our minds that we live much of our life.

What concerns anyone so much as the time he has to live?

Ah, we have to be generous to be grateful ... One has oneself to be a giver.

It is better to be drunk with loss and to beat the ground, than to let the deeper things gradually escape.

Our desires have a way of getting bigger with our incomes.

To young people the future is still long.

You should not want to know the things in people's minds. If you were meant to hear them, they would be said.

Civilized life exacts its toll.

Well, of course, people are only human... But it really does not seem much for them to be.

We must use words as they are used, or stand aside from life.

charm should be on the surface. It has no hidden use.

People have never lost what they think they have.

It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement.

We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs.

Parents have too little respect for their children, just as the children have too much for the parents.

As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots.

It is not for us to hold ourselves above the position of grateful people. We have to be able to accept. Anything else shows an unwillingness to grant someone else the superior place.

If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me.

Real charity and real ability never to condemn-the one real virtue-is so often the result of a waking experience that gives a glimpse of what lies beneath things.

some people always have a touch of youth about them.

Duty is seldom liked either by the doer or the object ... And why should it be? It is not often of advantage to either.

[On writing:] What a difficult kind of work to choose! But of course one did not choose it. There was no choice.

Never is a long word.

We do not discuss the members of our family to their faces.

Grief is always amplified in silence.

I would lose him a thousand lifetimes over if it meant I got the chance to love him a thousand times. And have him love me back.If only for a little while.

Our eyes are closed, but even without seeing, they’re only for each other.

Sometimes absence doesn’t make the heart grow fonder. Sometimes it just makes the heart hurt.

If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree falls toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it shall be.

One can travel the world and experience a lot of different things. But until all corners of the mind are openly explored does one gain deeper insight to the essence of living!~

Poetry is the guardian of love - constructed from truth it is a bridge that can be crossed from either side and it is oblivious of age or gender

One generation passes away, and another generation cometh forth: but the earth abides for ever.

What is my strength, that I should hope? Is my strength the strength of stone? Or is my flesh of brass? Is not my help in me.

Death does not wait for you to be ready.

You are created invisible spiritually, and invisibility is largely a matter of patience.

We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

There is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, 'See, this is new?' it had been already of old time, which was before us.

To conquer fear, you must become fear - you must bask in the fear of the BOOK... and men fear most what they cannot see- The Power of the Book is spiritual.

Today, death is your opponent.

It is not enough to be a man.

My grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! For now it would be heavier than the sand of the desert.