Lilias Quotes & Sayings

I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible. — Neil Gaiman

Life in the wild, as I'm observing, is about survival as much as pleasure. — Fennel Hudson

The typists might have been so many blackbeetles. — Agatha Christie

Dare to have it out with God, and ask Him to show you whether or not all is focused on Christ and His Glory. — Lilias Trotter

Obama was 200 percent advertising. I promote myself to sell my brands. Because now I am a kind of celeb. I am in a different world than the fashion industry. I am with Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Madonna. I build me as a celebrity. — Christian Audigier

When God delays in fulfilling our little thoughts, it is to have Himself room to work out His great ones. — Lilias Trotter

All failures are so because they lack social interest. — Alfred Adler

Turn your soul's vision to Jesus, and look and look at Him, and a strange dimness will come over all that is apart from Him. — Lilias Trotter

Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us - many days, many nights of stars. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Not to cause you pain but to let you know the abundant love that I have for you. — Anonymous

Take the very hardest thing in your life - the place of difficulty, outward or inward, and expect God to triumph gloriously in that very spot. Just there He can bring your soul into blossom. — Lilias Trotter

The first step into the realm of giving is ... not manward but Godward: an utter yielding of our best. So long as our idea of surrender is limited to the renouncing of unlawful things, we have never grasped its true meaning: that is not worthy of the name for 'no polluted thing' can be offered. — Lilias Trotter

Both Pasquale and Rino turned out to be surprisingly good dancers, and we learned from them the tango, the waltz, the polka, and the mazurka. — Elena Ferrante

Don't be afraid of mistakes - There are none. — Miles Davis