Bettina Von Arnim Quotes & Sayings

Self-confidence and self-will are strength for sacred accomplishments. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A man without a vote is in this land like a man without a hand. — Henry Ward Beecher

God gave us laughter, I think, as a balm to wash the wounds of our own blunders, as a splint to mend the bones we break in our rashness or vanity. — Mark Buchanan

Maybe this is what we've needed all along. Distance from everything else, and closeness to each other. — David Levithan

Yes, some people are going to reject you, some people are not going to find you interesting. That's okay. There will be lots of people you encounter, that will not be your cup of tea either. — Jim Melanson

This outer life, though obviously horrid; often seems the real one - there's grit in it. It does breed character. Do personal relations lead to sloppiness in the end? — E. M. Forster

We believe, and so suggested a few years ago, that the action of alcohol on these chronic alcoholics is a manifestation of an allergy; that the phenomenon of craving is limited to this class and never occurs in the average temperate drinker. These allergic types can never safely use alcohol in any form at all; and once having formed the habit and found they cannot break it, once having lost their self confidence, their reliance upon things human, their problems pile up on them and become astonishingly difficult to solve. — William Duncan Silkworth

One must only have a plan and learn to ease dreams into the cracks of life and sooner or later you'll find that the dreams are so woven into reality that they've become reality... and they're all the stronger for it. — Rachel Heffington