Enthusiasm Quotes

Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.

You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.

You can't go home again

Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter

Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.

no matter how ugly the world gets or how stupid it shows me it is, I always have faith

We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Either we are adrift in chaos or we are individuals, created, loved, upheld and placed purposefully, exactly where we are. Can you believe that? Can you trust God for that?

In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels

I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people.

The truth was this: Love is a decision.

And so I wait. I wait for time to heal the pain and raise me to me feet once again - so that I can start a new path, my own path, the one that will make me whole again.

I want a tattoo over my heart that reads TRY HARDER YOU LAZY PARAMEDIC SHITBAG OR I WILL HAUNT YOUR BEDROOM FOREVER

Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.

They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?

The quickest way to experiencing the peace inside, is to learn to recognize when I am not at peace.

Nothing goes perfectly for us. But... being incomplete is what pushes us onward to the next something... If we were even perfectly satisfied, what meaning would the rest of our lives hold, right?

Keeping demons from this world is your mandate, a mandate from heaven. And a mandate from heaven isn't something you can just ignore.

Life has always been a matter of putting one's feet down carefully

Good apprentices know that they are in the process of becoming masters and that as responsible artisans they must seek to improve upon the knowledge entrusted to them and go further.

I believe all women know in their heart of hearts that they truly are divine and magical, even if they've temporarily forgotten.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.

Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.

I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.

It's not how good you are, it's how good you want to be.

Everything changes, but beauty remains.

At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important.

The most successful people have the same twenty-four hours in a day that you do.

You can't get it all, unless you give it your all.

What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you.

He who thinks little errs much.

Winning to often is as disastrous as losing too often. Both get the same results, the falling off of the public's enthusiasm.

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

The professional world was much more unpleasant than I thought. I was always wishing I could get back that enthusiasm I had when I was doing shows at college.

Consider that this day ne'er dawns again.

To walk out of his will is to walk into nowhere.

Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.

We can't be brave without fear.

You have only one chance to raise your child.

Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain.

An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.

Whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It's your mission on earth.

Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell

It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.

I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.

I don't think you should wait. I think you should speak now.

To my abusers: I forgive you.

He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.