Trevyn Mcdowell Quotes & Sayings

If you have not what you like, like what you have until you can change your environment. Do not waste your vitality in hating your life; find something in it which is worth liking and enjoying, while you keep steadily at work to make it what you desire. Be happy over something, every day, for the brain is a thing of habit, and you cannot teach it to be happy in a moment, if you allow it to be miserable for years. — Orison Swett Marden

A submissive spirit might be patient, a strong understanding would supply resolution, but here was something more; here was that elasticity of mind, that disposition to be comforted, that power of turning readily from evil to good, and of finding employment which carried her out of herself, which was from nature alone. It was the choicest gift of Heaven; and Anne viewed her friend as one of those instances in which, by a merciful appointment, it seems designed to counterbalance almost every other want. — Jane Austen

General literature without the humbug," was the New Yorker's original mission. — Harold Holzer

Nick was sitting on the slant of the pebble-smooth gray roof tiles with clouds wrapped around his wrists like pale ropes. — Sarah Rees Brennan

Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe. — Paul Di Filippo

And where was that day? Past and dead. Whose humiliating memories were these? His and not his father's. What had he to think back on that he could call good? Very, very little. You had to forgive. First, to forgive yourself, and then, general forgiveness. — Saul Bellow

For what are obstacles to the lower creatures are opportunities to the higher life of man. — Rabindranath Tagore

What power--what importance--lies in the blank lines of an open notebook. Go and fill yours. Then share. — Penny Kittle

It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family. — Confucius