Quotes round-up

“The best way out is always through. ” -Robert Frost

"The trouble with steeling yourself against the harshness of reality is that the same steel that secures your life against being destroyed secures your life also against being opened up and transformed by the holy power that life itself comes from.' -Frederick Buechner

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do." -Eleanor Roosevelt

" It is important to tell at least from time to time the secret of who we truly and fully are...because otherwise we run the risk of losing track of who we truly and fully are and little by little come to accept instead the highly edited version which we put forth in hope that the world will find it more acceptable than the real thing." -Frederick Buechner

"The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention." -Oscar Wilde

"For Christ plays in ten thousand places,/ Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his/ To the Father through the features of men's faces." — Gerard Manley

"I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root: / It is what you fear. / I do not fear it: I have been there."

“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I believe instead that we all of us have not just the right to be happy no matter what but also a kind of sacred commission to be happy—in the sense of being free to breathe and move, in the sense of being able to bless our own lives, even the sad times of our own lives, because through all our times we can learn and grow, and through all our times, if we keep our ears open, God speaks to us his saving word.” -Frederick Buechner

"The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable." -James A. Garfield

" It is impossible for anybody to leave behind the darkness of the world he carries on his back like a snail, but for God all things are possible." -Frederick Buechner

"If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story." -Orson Welles

"Open your eyes, and the drops come in a snail race down to your neck, & look up, but you were smiling somehow.... Everybody knows you'd break your neck to keep your chin up." -Copeland

"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed." ~Carl Jung

"You have not come by the most direct way --- but rest assured the Lord has led you by the best way." -C.S. Lewis

"Reality is for those who lack imagination." -Anon.

“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.” -Ernest Hemingway

"Presume not that I am the thing I was." -Shakespeare

"On and on you will hike, and I know you'll hike far, and face up to your problems, whatever they are." -Dr. Seuss

"Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life...." -Anne Lamott

"I am a congenital believer, a helpless hungerer after the marvelous as solace and adventure and escape" (Frederick Buechner).

"Present fears/ Are less than horrible imaginings." -Shakespeare

"See that thou lovest what is lovely." -William Penn

""Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned/ By those who are not entirely beautiful." -W.B. Yeats

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live." J.K. Rowling

"Last night as I was sleeping,/ I dreamt—marvelous error!— /that I had a beehive
here inside my heart./ And the golden bees/ were making white combs/ and sweet honey/ from my old failures." -Antonio Machado

"Courage does not always roar. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'" -Maryanne Radanbacher