Enthusiasm Quotes

It is better for the heart to break, than not to break.

My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness.

All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days . . .nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.

I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.

Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.

God has prepared a path for everyone to follow.

Do not make your mind a dumping ground for other people's garbage.

Your life today is the result of a series of decisions you made that have caused you to arrive where you are.

If you want to make a difference, the next time you see someone being cruel to another human being, take it personally. Take it personally because it is personal!

Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.

What is man but his passion?

Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

People who never get carried away should be.

The only thing that keeps a man going is energy. And what is energy but liking life?

Reason alone is insufficient to make us enthusiastic in any matter.

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.

There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.

Nothing gives you confidence like being a member of a small, weirdly specific, hard-to-find demographic.

Christianity . . . sees the necessity for man to have spiritual values and it shows him how to get at those through physical sacraments.

Art is something you choose to make... it's a bringing together of... of everything around you into something that makes you more human, more khepri, whatever. More of a person.

People who demand signs never believe them when they come.

The gods of the realms are many and varied -- or they are the many and varied names and identities tagged onto the same being. I know not -- and care not -- which.

Let yourself be enchanted in small ways.

Support and encouragement are found in the most unlikely places.

There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while.

The heart may freeze, or it can burn. The pain will ease and I can learn. There is no future, there is no past. I live this moment as, my last.

Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.

Getting something and having the wits to use it...those are two different things.

[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived.

I read somewhere... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong... to measure yourself at least once.

We can follow a steady upward course in a world of change without fear, welcoming opportunities

Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners.

This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.

One of the biggest favors that you can do for yourself is to accept your loved ones for who they are, and not be constantly disappointed because they are not who you think they should be.

Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.

Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination

Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.

I don't know, I don't want to talk as much. (...) It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. I don't like to have them laughed at or wondered over.

No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.

The truth is revealed when you are ready to receive it when you need it in order to move forward to take the next step in your journey. to move on toward your destiny.

If you are a dreamer come in

If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.

If people reach perfection they vanish, you know.

I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I've tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied

There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind.