Jeffers Quotes & Sayings

I'm interested in how we define things by how we choose to observe them, and how everywhere in our lives, and in every moment we experience, there are forces at work that we don't fully understand. Couple this curiosity with a love of portraiture painting, and that's how this project was born. — Oliver Jeffers

Commitment creates a powerful radiant energy that activates all sorts of "miracles" within and around you. — Susan Jeffers

If millions are born millions must die. — Robinson Jeffers

There is an automatic assumption that negative is realistic and positive is unrealistic. — Susan Jeffers

A self-assured woman who is in control of her life draws like a magnet. She is so filled with positive energy that people want to be around her. — Susan Jeffers

We become powerful in the face of our fears when we have a sense that we make a difference in this world. We are all meaningful participants in this Universe and worthy of giving and receiving love. Some affirmations of purpose are: I know that I count and I act as though I do. I spread warmth and love everywhere I go. I am a healing force in the Universe. — Susan Jeffers

I believe that the universe is one being, all its parts are different expressions of the same energy ... parts of one organic whole ... (This is physics, I believe, as well as religion.) The parts change and pass, or die, people and races and rocks and stars; none of them seems to me important in itself, but only the whole. This whole is in all its parts so beautiful, and is felt by me to be so intensely in earnest, that I am compelled to love it, and to think of it as divine. — Robinson Jeffers

Monsters are not born they are made. — Valjeanne Jeffers

Remember that underlying all our fears is a lack of trust in ourselves. — Susan Jeffers

The truth is: If you knew you could handle anything that came your way, what would you have to fear. The answer is: NOTHING! — Susan Jeffers

I love you, Fitzwilliam Darcy--with all my heart."
"And I love you, my dearest Elizabeth. Forever and ever. — Regina Jeffers

Nothing is as satisfying as those moments of breakthrough when you discover something about yourself and the universe that adds another piece to the jigsaw puzzle. The joy of discovery is delicious. — Susan Jeffers

At the bottom of all our fears is simply the that we can't handle what life hands us. — Susan Jeffers

Then the boy realised,the penguin wasn't lost,he was just lonely. — Oliver Jeffers

The cold passion for truth hunts in no pack. — Robinson Jeffers

The paintings each take several months to do and it's quite a cathartic and intense experience that's very pleasurable, but also very strange. — Oliver Jeffers

Even this cold, this fearful, your mind wanders. You've lost a mile not knowing you were walking. — Ian Mackenzie Jeffers

It is only a little planet, but how beautiful it is. — Robinson Jeffers

There
is not a person alive who is not capable of greatly contributing to the
well - being of this planet. Just changing your attitude can affect the
world around you. — Susan Jeffers

There's nothing as powerful as a made-up mind! — Susan Jeffers

Still the mind smiles at its own rebellions. — Robinson Jeffers

Trust your feelings. If the path you're on isn't providing you joy, satisfaction, creativity, love, and caring, that's not it. — Susan Jeffers

A ship in harbour is safe, but it's not fulfilling its potential — Susan Jeffers

In truth, nothing was the same. She forgot about the stars ... and taking notice of the sea. She was no longer filled with all the curiosities of the world and didn't take much notice of anything ... other than how heavy ... and awkward the bottle had become. — Oliver Jeffers

One step at a time is enough for me. Impatience is simply a way of beating yourself up. (from Kammy haynes) — Susan Jeffers

As we open our hearts to others, we begin to discover the truth of our own inner beauty, inner strength and inner light. — Susan Jeffers

By learning to trust your intuition, miracles seem to happen. Intuitive thoughts are gifts from the higher self. — Susan Jeffers

The source of our love comes from within. No one out there is that source. It makes sense to go to the source. — Susan Jeffers

In pleasant peace and security
How suddenly the soul in a man begins to die
He shall look up above the stalled oxen
Envying the cruel falcon,
And dig under the straw for a stone
To bruise himself on. — Robinson Jeffers

Long live freedom and damn the ideologies. — Robinson Jeffers

I said to myself: 'You mean all those people out there that I've been envying because they're not afraid to move ahead with their lives have really been afraid? Why didn't somebody tell me!?' I guess I never asked. — Susan Jeffers

I hate my verses, every line, every word. Oh pale and brittle pencils ever to try One grass-blade's curve, or the throat of one bird That clings to twig, ruffled against white sky. Oh cracked and twilight mirrors ever to catch One color, one glinting flash, of the splendor of things. — Robinson Jeffers

If everybody feels fear when approaching something totally new in life - yet so many are out there doing it despite the fear - then we must conclude that fear is not the problem. — Susan Jeffers

I never knew how high a price one pays for being taken care of ... — Susan Jeffers

IF YOU KNEW YOU COULD HANDLE ANYTHING THAT CAME YOUR WAY, WHAT WOULD YOU POSSIBLY HAVE TO FEAR? The answer is: NOTHING! — Susan Jeffers

You have to do something to make your real life match your visualization. — Susan Jeffers

If the sign on your heart says "WELCOME", the love will come pouring in from everywhere. — Susan Jeffers

Commitment doesn't mean that it has to last forever, but while you are there, commit yourself 100%. By doing this, the quality of your life improves 100%. — Susan Jeffers

Do the thing you fear, it's sure to disappear. — Susan Jeffers

That public men publish falsehoods
Is nothing new. That America must accept
Like the historical republics corruption and empire
Has been known for years.

Be angry at the sun for setting
If these things anger you. Watch the wheel slope and tum.
They are all bound on the wheel, these people, those warriors,
This republic, Europe, Asia.

Observe them gesticulating,
Observe them going down. The gang serves lies, the passionate
Man plays his part; the cold passion for truth
Hunts in no pack.

You are not CatulIus, you know,
To lampoon these crude sketches of Caesar. You are far
From Dante's feet, but even farther from his dirty
Political hatredS.

Let boys want pleasure, and men
Struggle for power, and women perhaps for fame,
And the servile to serve a Leader and the dupes to be duped.
Yours is not theirs. — Robinson Jeffers

Find your self love. Find that precious thing inside you that
makes you want to live. And when you've found it, hold on to it with one
hand, and use the other to claw your way back home.
-Ripple — Valjeanne Jeffers

Usually inner strength is respected - we get back what we put out. — Susan Jeffers

Any student of the New Testament eager to understand its Greco-Roman setting will profit greatly from this excellent book. I commend it highly for its up-to-date perspectives and usefulness. Jeffers writes with a breadth of expertise on the Greco-Roman world that few New Testament specialists can match. — Craig S. Keener

Listen to the silence ... it has much to say. — Susan Jeffers

Our intuition is always operating for us. — Susan Jeffers

If you are not enjoying yourself, you are wasting time. — Susan Jeffers

WHEN WE GIVE FROM A PLACE OF LOVE, RATHER THAN FROM A PLACE OF EXPECTATION, MORE USUALLY COMES BACK TO US THAN WE COULD HAVE EVER IMAGINED. — Susan Jeffers

O Lord, please fill my mouth with worthwhile stuff, and nudge me when I've said enough. Enlightenment is the "quiet acceptance of what is" I believe the truly enlightened beings are those who refuse to allow themselves to be distressed over things that simply are the way they are. - Wayne Dyer Learn the richness of solitude and quiet. That "still small voice" is yearning to be heard. — Susan Jeffers

What I try to control ends up controlling me. — Susan Jeffers

Love The Wild Swan
I hate my verses, every line, every word.
Oh pale and brittle pencils ever to try
One grass-blade's curve, or the throat of one bird
That clings to twig, ruffled against white sky.
Oh cracked and twilight mirrors ever to catch
One color, one glinting
Hash, of the splendor of things.
Unlucky hunter, Oh bullets of wax,
The lion beauty, the wild-swan wings, the storm of the wings.
This wild swan of a world is no hunter's game.
Better bullets than yours would miss the white breast
Better mirrors than yours would crack in the flame.
Does it matter whether you hate your ... self?
At least Love your eyes that can see, your mind that can
Hear the music, the thunder of the wings. Love the wild swan. — Robinson Jeffers

The wall that protects you, also imprisons you. — Susan Jeffers

The tides are in our veins, we still mirror the stars, life is your child, but there is in me
Older and harder than life and more impartial, the eye that watched before there was an ocean. — Robinson Jeffers

Obviously, the real issue has nothing to do with fear itself, but, rather, how we hold the fear. For some, the fear is totally irrelevant. For others, it creates a state of paralysis. The former hold their fear from a position of power (choice, energy, and action), and the latter hold it from a position of pain (helplessness, depression, and paralysis). — Susan Jeffers

SAY YES TO YOUR UNIVERSE. — Susan Jeffers

By reeducating the mind, you can accept fear as simply a fact of life rather than a barrier to success. — Susan Jeffers

Curiosity is the surest sign of intelligence — Oliver Jeffers

When you put loving thoughts and behavior into the world, you plant seeds of self-respect. When you put unloving thoughts and behavior into the world, you destroy seeds of self-respect. — Susan Jeffers

Well: the day is a poem but too much Like one of Jeffers's, crusted with blood and barbaric omens Painful to excess, inhuman as a hawk's cry. — Robinson Jeffers

Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market; or the precipice. — Robinson Jeffers

You making haste haste on decay ... — Robinson Jeffers

I learned that ruling poor men's hands is nothing. Ruling men's money's a wedge in the world. But after I'd split it open a crack I looked in and saw the trick inside it, the filthy nothing, the fooled and rotten faces of rich and successful men. — Robinson Jeffers

I will handle it — Susan Jeffers

Your joy, your happiness, your satisfaction and your ability to dance with life, depends solely on what you pay attention to. — Susan Jeffers

Before there was any water there were tides of fire, both our tones flow from the older fountain. — Robinson Jeffers

Everything wants to be remembered, chronicled, documented: everything - all of this and all the rest, because your life is neither a finite length that can be measured out to a certain point and served, nor is it only your own. — Alex Jeffers

Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you fore defeated
Challengers of oblivion
Eat cynical earnings, knowing rock splits, records fall down,
The square-limbed Roman letters
Scale in the thaws, wear in the rain. The poet as well
Builds his monument mockingly;
For man will be blotted out, the blithe earth die, the brave sun
Die blind and blacken to the heart:
Yet stones have stood for a thousand years, and pained thoughts found
The honey of peace in old poems. — Robinson Jeffers

Seagulls ... slim yachts of the element. — Robinson Jeffers

Everything we know has come from stories that have been told over and over again as truth. Those stories turn into history. — Oliver Jeffers

I've changed my ways a little, I cannot now
Run with you in the evenings along the shore,
Except in a kind of dream, and you, if you dream a moment,
You see me there. — Robinson Jeffers

For many of us, the people we find most difficult to praise are the ones closest to us - our mates, our children, our parents, and sometimes our friends. — Susan Jeffers

Remove those 'I want you to like me' stickers from your forehead and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good -on your mirror! — Susan Jeffers

One existence, one music, one organism, one life, one God: star-fire and rock-strength, the sea's cold flow
And man's dark soul. — Robinson Jeffers

I pulled a book by Robinson Jeffers off the shelf one day. It was powerfully moving. Tears ran down my face. That's when I became a poet. — William Everson

I have heard the summer dust crying to be born. — Robinson Jeffers

The Atlantic is a stormy moat, and the Mediterranean,
The blue pool in the old garden,
More than five thousand years has drunk sacrifice
Of ships and blood and shines in the sun; but here the Pacific:
The ships, planes, wars are perfectly irrelevant.
Neither our present blood-feud with the brave dwarfs
Nor any future world-quarrel of westering
And eastering man, the bloody migrations, greed of power, battle-falcons,
Are a mote of dust in the great scale-pan.
Here from this mountain shore, headland beyond stormy headland plunging like
dolphins through the grey sea-smoke
Into pale sea, look west at the hill of water: it is half the planet: this
dome, this half-globe, this bulging
Eyeball of water, arched over to Asia,
Australia and white Antarctica: those are the eyelids that never close; this
is the staring unsleeping
Eye of the earth, and what it watches is not our wars. — Robinson Jeffers

You are the type of female who grows more lovely, not by false paints or creams, but by being a complete woman, a woman who knows intelligence, sympathy, forgiveness, generosity, and love of family. I cannot imagine a more perfect combination. — Regina Jeffers

Man leave the past in the past. That's where it belongs. The trouble with addicts is that they carry bad memories around with them - like old luggage. And in that luggage that's where they carry their blueprint for living. You got to decide what's worth keeping, and then set the rest of it on the curb for the garbage.
-Joseph — Valjeanne Jeffers

We fear beginnings; we fear endings. We fear changing; we fear "staying stuck." We fear success; we fear failure. We fear living; we fear dying. — Susan Jeffers

The beauty of things was born before eyes and sufficient to itself; the heartbreaking beauty
Will remain when there is no heart to break for it. — Robinson Jeffers

The truth is that love and power go together. — Susan Jeffers

The biggest pitfall as you make your way through your life is impatience. — Susan Jeffers

You're not a failure if you don't make it. You're a success because you tried. — Susan Jeffers

Oh heavy change. The world deteriorates like a rotting apple, worms and a skin. — Robinson Jeffers

Our goal is to enjoy, not to achieve perfection — Susan Jeffers

Never blame the man: his hard-pressed
Ancestors formed him: the other anthropoid apes were safe
In the great southern rain-forest and hardly changed
In a million years: but the race of man was made
By shock and agony ...
... a wound was made in the brain
When life became too hard, and has never healed.
It is there that they learned trembling religion and blood-
sacrifice,
It is there that they learned to butcher beasts and to slaughter
men,
And hate the world. — Robinson Jeffers

The only time you will fear anything is when you say no and resist the universe. You may have heard the expression "Go with the flow." This means consciously accepting what is happening in your life. — Susan Jeffers

Take a risk a day - one small or bold stroke that will make you feel great once you have done it.
— Susan Jeffers

He is strong and pain is worse to the strong, incapacity is worse. — Robinson Jeffers

The love of freedom has been the quality of Western man. — Robinson Jeffers

Patience means knowing it will happen ... and giving it time to happen. — Susan Jeffers

Too many of us seem to be searching for something 'out there' to make our lives complete. What we are all really searching for is the divine essence that lives within. — Susan Jeffers

Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it. — Robinson Jeffers

Drink in the beauty of friendship. In this world of constant change, we need the comfort of friendship more than ever before. — Susan Jeffers

People who refuse to take risks live with a feeling of dread that is far more severe than what they would feel if they took the risks necessary to make them less helpless - only they don't know it! — Susan Jeffers

We are all winners when we say yes — Susan Jeffers

For some reason, when you become a support to others, you become bigger than you are. — Susan Jeffers

As for me, I would rather be a worm in a wild apple than a son of man. But we are what we are, and we might remember not to hate any person, for all are vicious; And not to be astonished at any evil, all are deserved; And not to fear death; it is the only way to be cleansed. — Robinson Jeffers

Miss Darcy shot a quick glance to where her brother shared a conversation with the Gardiners. Elizabeth — Regina Jeffers

We all create expectations of what we would like to happen after a decision is made. The picture in our mind's eye might have served a valuable function in helping to make a decision. But once the decision is made, let the picture go. Since you can't control the future, the picture can create unhappiness if it's not fulfilled. Disappointment may make you miss the good that can come out of every situation in which you find yourself. — Susan Jeffers

Each time we confront some intense difficulty, we know there is something we haven't learned yet, and the universe is now giving us the opportunity to learn. — Susan Jeffers