Quotes of Catherine Drinker Bowen

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Writers seldom choose as friends those selfcentered characters who are never in trouble, never make mistakes, and always count their change as it is handed to them.

- Catherine Drinker Bowen

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“ When your only competition is becoming a better you, you will always win the game. ”

- Jackie Griffin

“ If ur laptop doesnt smell like fire then ur losing. ”

- Genereux Philip

“ My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes a part of you, step for step, breath for breath. I will never stop grieving Bailey because I will never stop loving her. That's just how it is. Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy. ”

- Jandy Nelson

“ In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death. ”

- Anne Frank

“ Battered was my heart in the deep search, branded with cracks like slices of silver birch. An ignorant dream, a wish, just fool's gold that was the tale that love had sold. ”

- Sara Secora

“ I am convinced that one should tell one's spiritual director if one has a great desire for Communion, for Our Lord does not come from Heaven every day to stay in a golden ciborium; He comes to find another heaven, the heaven of our soul in which He loves to dwell. ”

- St. Therese of Lisieux

“ Is there any positive energy like enthusiasm? ”

- Lailah Gifty Akita

“ Don't let him take who you are. Make him fear who you'll become. ”

- Mary Weber

“ Love is the beauty of the soul. ”

- Augustine of Hippo

“ I want to stand in front Allah proud of how well I treated back in dunya. ”

- Ismaaciil C. Ubax

“ I have come from the End of the World. From the River of Dreams, through the gauntlet and the Briar and the Deep Wyld, in order to stand before you today. I have but one request—to take my place at your side. To resume my duty as your knight, and to protect you and your kingdom for as long as I draw breath. ”

- Julie Kagawa

“ There are many Mondays to go before I die. I may as well look forward to them. ”

- Trevor Carss

“ Fear lies. Save love. ”

- Arif Naseem

“ Education must not simply teach work – it must teach Life. ”

- W. E. B. Du Bois

“ Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it. ”

- Mark Twain

“ If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. ”

- Ernest Hemingway

“ Love people who hate you. Pray for people who have wronged you. It won’t just change their life…it’ll change yours. ”

- Mandy Hale

“ The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. ”

- Socrates

“ Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose. ”

- Victor Frankl

“ Let no one who loves be called unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow. ”

- J. M. Barrie

“ Your love needs no explanation, and their sin does not deserve your revenge. ”

- Praharsh Prasoon

“ Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself. ”

- Leo Buscaglia

“ That's a misconception, Lennie. The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet. ”

- Jandy Nelson

“ Sometimes the hardest one to see . . .is the one standing right before you. ”

- Lenora Porch