Quotes of Catherine Drinker Bowen

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Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in the mirror which waits always before or behind.

- Catherine Drinker Bowen

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“ Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results. ”

- Ernest Shackleton

“ Where wild souls meet wild lovers is where hurricanes are made. ”

- ventum

“ I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. ”

- Charlotte Bronte

“ Numbers by popular consensus don’t make a wrong thing right, and if you are misunderstood for being right, don’t be afraid because they are not yet in the right time zone. ”

- Erwin D. Maramat

“ And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about. ”

- Haruki Murakami

“ I do love nothing in the world so well as you is not that strange? ”

- William Shakespeare

“ If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people. ”

- Confucius

“ Repetition is the mother of skill. (might be someone else who wrote it). ”

- Anthony Robbins

“ Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new. ”

- Ursula K. Le Guin

“ Don't worry when people only bring up your past. It's only because your present and future looks brighter and better than theirs ”

- Kimberking

“ We need hearts with restored empathy And homes with restored hope ”

- Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“ Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is. ”

- Gary Zukav

“ The way you handle fear determines the results you have in life. If you are equipped with knowledge, you can overcome fear ”

- H. J. Chammas

“ Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ My love for you does not recognize boundaries, distances, borders, or timezones! ”

- Avijeet Das

“ We accept some black people, receive some white people, embrace some Asian people, and welcome some mixed people, but God commands us to love all people. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense. ”

- e.e. cummings

“ There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. ”

- Voltaire

“ In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk. ”

- Robert T. Kiyosaki

“ Life is an abstract art, and it’s up to you to make sense of it. ”

- Talismanist Giebra

“ You are successful in my book if you do what you love for a living; you do not owe money to anyone; you have a place what you call home; you have a wife/husband, a girlfriend/boyfriend, or a partner who loves and respects you; and most importantly, you are surrounded by friends and loved ones who stand by you in good and bad days. ”

- JOHN TASKINSOY

“ Do it big, do it right, and do it with style. ”

- Fried Astaire

“ To pay gratitude, sign of generosity. ”

- Shekhar Srivastava

“ I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.. ”

- Thoreau