Quotes of Catherine Drinker Bowen

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Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

- Catherine Drinker Bowen

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“ There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable. ”

- Chesterton

“ Fake it 'till you make it. ”

- Gayle Forman

“ A heart filled with anger has no room for love. ”

- Joan Lunden

“ It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones. ”

- Ray Bradbury

“ Unrequited love’s a bore. ”

- Lorenz Hart

“ The desires of man are frequently more influential than their rational thought. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ Everything is easier said than done. Wanting something is easy. Saying something is easy. The challenge and the reward are in the doing. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ My mama always used to tell me: ‘If you can’t find somethin’ to live for, you best find somethin’ to die for.’ ”

- Tupac Shakur

“ 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

“ To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. ”

- William M. Thackery

“ There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter. ”

- Melissa Marr

“ Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly. ”

- Dalai Lama

“ Morning is when the wick is lit. A flame ignited, the day delighted with heat and light, we start the fight for something more than before. ”

- Jeb Dickerson

“ If you have kindness in your heart, you offer acts of kindness to touch the hearts of others wherever you go—whether they are random or planned. Kindness becomes a way of life. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truthpenultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told. ”

- Joseph Campbell

“ Love isn't a feeling or emotion that changes timely, it's everlasting... ”

- Gandhi

“ Do you have to make me feel like there's nothing left of me? You can take everything I have, you can break everything I am, like I am made of glass, like I am made of paper.Go on and try to tear me down I will be rising from the ground like a Skyscraper... ”

- Demi Lovato

“ 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

“ ...most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you. ”

- Anne Lamott

“ Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Your best creative assets do not occur unless you do a mental shift. You have to be in a positive frame of mind because inspiration is fleeting. I walk to work for inspiration and to clear my mind. ”

- Ron Ben Israel

“ Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. ”

- Winston Churchill

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

- J. M. Barrie