Lizette Quotes & Sayings

The attitude of gratitude is yoga. Ingratitude is "unyoga," like "uncola." Where gratitude is, there is yoga. Where there is ingratitude, yoga is gone. That mind which does not live in gratitude is just like a junkyard. There are great cars there, but they don't work; they are useless, because they are junk. What are you without gratitude? — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

The Glory of God, and, as our only means of glorifying Him, the salvation of human souls, is the real business of life. — C.S. Lewis

A child without an acquaintance of some kind with a classic of literature ... suffers from that impoverishment for the rest of his life. No later intimacy is like that of the first. — Lizette Woodworth Reese

Thrice blessed are they whose early years are spent in some countryside. The flowering and withering of the seasons, and every exquisite sound and sight - every lane, and pasture, and green corners and gnarled hollows everywhere, make them affluent with a treasure which neither change nor chance can steal away. — Lizette Woodworth Reese

For poetry, more than any other art, except music, has a compelling hold upon the spiritual side of life. — Lizette Woodworth Reese

Lives that have had their turn now take their turn observing other lives. — Jonathan Stone

Elizabeth Kostova's 2005 blockbuster, The Historian, — Deborah Harkness

I wonder at the idleness of tears. — Lizette Woodworth Reese

Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress toward more pain. — George Orwell

I say, when Mercury arrives, we just pretend we're not here." Lawe tipped back his whiskey and swallowed in a single drink. "Stay real quiet. Don't make eye contact." They all nodded. — Lora Leigh

The old faiths light their candles all about, but burly Truth comes by and puts them out. — Lizette Woodworth Reese

The sun pours out like wine. — Lizette Woodworth Reese

A fathers only wish is for his children to be infinitely better off than him — Lou Silluzio

Sometimes a song indicates that it wants to be about a certain thing. And then if you write it, you find that it is about something that you've done. — Jesse Harris

None of us ever escape the first few years of our lives. They make a mould into which we are cast, and though it may be broken, and we turned loose, some remnant of it, some intangible evil or lovely thing or both, will remain with us, like the odor to a flower, or the smoothness to a piece of ivory. It is part of the immortality of youth. — Lizette Woodworth Reese

Glad that I live am I;
That the sky is blue;
Glad for the country lanes,
And the fall of dew. — Lizette Woodworth Reese

Writing this book required an enormous amount of help from friends. To them goes the credit. I'll take the money. — P. J. O'Rourke

The better you are as a parent, the richer the nest you've built, the more difficult it is for your kids to leave. So they have to invent things to dislike about you. And they're brilliant at it. — Dustin Hoffman

I think people are always really surprised when they realise I'm not a very serious person and that I'm not tremendously serious about acting. I don't like to rehearse; I hate improv. Directors that don't like to talk, they're my favourite ones. — Julianne Moore

To hear that your neighbor was worse off than yourself was not an altogether unpleasant experience. — Lizette Woodworth Reese

When you give a speech you don't go through a laundry list, you talk about the things that you think are important. — Mitt Romney

In my relationship, she is my woman and I am her man. This designation is not one of ownership, but of passion. It is a loving and passionate expression that reflects the truth that out of over seven billion people in the world, she is my ONE. — Steve Maraboli