Amelia Barr Quotes

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.

Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.

Kindness is always fashionable.

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

Time is a very precious gift- so precious that it is only given to us moment by moment.

There are no little events in life, those we think of no consequence may be full of fate, and it is at our own risk if we neglect the acquaintances and opportunities that seem to be casually offered, and of small importance.

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

Forethought spares afterthought.

Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

Don’t fail through defects of temper and over-sensitiveness at moments of trial. One of the great helps to success is to be cheerful; to go to work with a full sense of life; to be determined to put hindrances out of the way; to prevail over them and to get the mastery. Above all things else, be cheerful; there is no beatitude for the despairing.

Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition.

No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!

For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.

It is not that we have a soul, we are a soul.

Love, like destiny, loves surprises.

When a man has calamity upon calamity the world generally concludes that he must be a very wicked man to deserve them. Perhaps the world is right; but it is also just possible that the world ... may be wrong.

a little misgiving in the beginning of things, means much regret in the end of them.

Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.

The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.

Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.

youth is always sure that change must mean something better.

Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.

Old age is the verdict of life.

When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.

That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.

But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?

Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.

Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.

Genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

I have seen that every one forgives much in themselves that they find unpardonable in other people.

There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.

But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.

Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds it.

the nighttime of the body is the daytime of the soul.

One should not run on a new road.

We generally get the evil we expect.

Laughter is always fatal to feeling.

What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.

Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.

To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly - I know not which is the greater.

what is unreasonable is irrefutable.

A good message will always find a messenger.

politicians ... turn patriotism into shopkeeping and their own interest - men who care far more for who governs us than for how we are governed.. And what will be the end of such ways? I will tell you. We shall have a Democracy that will be the reign of those who know the least and talk the loudest.

the fruit of life is experience, not happiness.

I wear the key of memory, and can open every door in the house of my life.

All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished.

The first step is what I like to be sure of ... to the second step it often binds you.