Phitakappa Quotes & Sayings

We are not, most of us, capable of exalted emotion, save rarely. — Dorothy Day

Directing is to fill anyone with a yearning to get back at ten o'clock next morning. — Tyrone Guthrie

Sometimes the hardest part is just believing — Amanda Strong

Nationality is a good thing to a certain extent, but universality is better. All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal. Their roots are in their native soil; but their branches wave in the unpatriotic air, that speaks the same language unto all men, and their leaves shine with the illimitable light that pervades all lands. Let us throw all the windows open; let us admit the light and air on all sides; that we may look towards the four corners of the heavens, and not always in the same direction. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Anywhere there is life, there are eyes. And things, too, speak to those who have ears to hear. — Eiji Yoshikawa

All my life, books had been the life raft, the safe haven, the place I ran to when nothing else worked. — Elyn R. Saks

When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts. — David Brainerd