Quotes of Ilka Chase

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People are subject to moods, to temptations and fears, lethargy and aberration and ignorance, and the staunchest qualities shift under the stresses and strains of daily life.

- Ilka Chase

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“ Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. ”

- Max Ehrmann

“ Love yourself, whatever makes you different, and use it to make you stand out. Mine is my voice and the fact that I’m gay: well, the fact that I’m flamboyantly gay. ”

- Ross Mathews

“ I love you and it’s getting worse. ”

- Joseph E. Morris

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

- Voltaire

“ I love words.  I crave descriptions that overwhelm my imagination with vivid detail.  I dwell on phrases that make my heart thrum.  I cherish expressions that pierce my emotions and force the tears to spill over.   In essence, I long for a writer's soul sealed in ink on the page. ”

- Richelle E. Goodrich

“ All worries are less with wine. ”

- Amit Kalantri

“ Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you. ”

- Walt Whitman

“ It takes courage to be honest and to work, while others play, cheat, sponge like parasites or are idle. There is value in the work that you choose to do, and you are an innately valuable person. ”

- Zita Steele

“ A failure is always in the passenger seat in his or her life. ”

- Stephen Richards

“ Drunk and alone and hopelessly in love with the idea that someday somehow it might just get better. ”

- Stefanie Sybens

“ Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is, that he has great expectations. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground. ”

- Stephen Covey

“ How can I put the Auras back in the chest?” I asked, terror boiling inside my stomach. “You can’t. Not if those that were or will be struck by them won’t be eager to express their feelings and let you help them. You do not change people, dearie. It’s the people that change themselves. You’re the Guardian, but they’re the bearers,” the Oracle whispered. “I’m no Guardian. I’m doomed!” I said and I knew that this was true. ”

- Victoria Moschou

“ All my problems bow before my stubbornness. ”

- Amit Kalantri

“ The more one judges, the less one loves. ”

- Honore de Balzac

“ The path is paved with consistent, conscious mental and spiritual alertness and the gradual growth of goodness in our heart and clarity in our mind. We are awake. If we keep trying to understand, we will understand. If we keep telling ourselves that we are loved by Life and if we keep looking for evidence of that love, we will find it. ”

- Donna Goddard

“ Many, many readers have written asking me wistfully about the nature of Sam and Grace's relationship, and I can assure you, that sort is absolutely real. Mutual, respectful, enduring love is completely attainable as long as you swear you won't settle for less. ”

- Maggie Stiefvater

“ Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. ”

- Mary Roberts Rinehart

“ Perfection does not exist you can always do better and you can always grow. ”

- Les Brown

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

- W. E. B. Du Bois

“ And out of Tristan's heart there grew a hazel tree, and out of Iseult's a honeysuckle, and they arched together and clung and intertwined so that they could never be separated anymore. ”

- Rosemary Sutcliff

“ There are times in life which proves life is wife and wife is life. ”

- Fahad Basheer

“ Sometimes, as we're stumbling along in the dark, we hit something good. ”

- Susan Ee

“ Love shapes who you are in many ways. Its presence or absence in our youth impacts our adulthood, which impacts our future generations; the cycle has to be restarted somewhere. ”

- Hani Selim

“ I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it’s just too much. The current’s too strong. They’ve got to let go, drift apart. ”

- Kazuo Ishiguro