Amelia Barr Quotes

Kindness is always fashionable.

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

Time is a very precious gift- so precious that it is only given to us moment by moment.

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.

Forethought spares afterthought.

Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.

There are no little events in life, those we think of no consequence may be full of fate, and it is at our own risk if we neglect the acquaintances and opportunities that seem to be casually offered, and of small importance.

Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.

It is not that we have a soul, we are a soul.

To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy; to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves.

politicians ... turn patriotism into shopkeeping and their own interest - men who care far more for who governs us than for how we are governed.. And what will be the end of such ways? I will tell you. We shall have a Democracy that will be the reign of those who know the least and talk the loudest.

A good message will always find a messenger.

youth is always sure that change must mean something better.

Don’t fail through defects of temper and over-sensitiveness at moments of trial. One of the great helps to success is to be cheerful; to go to work with a full sense of life; to be determined to put hindrances out of the way; to prevail over them and to get the mastery. Above all things else, be cheerful; there is no beatitude for the despairing.

I have seen that every one forgives much in themselves that they find unpardonable in other people.

What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.

No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!

the nighttime of the body is the daytime of the soul.

what is unreasonable is irrefutable.

Death is like the setting of the sun. The sun never sets; life never ceases. ... we think the sun sets, and it never ceases shining; we think our friends die, and they never cease living.

the fruit of life is experience, not happiness.

Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.

Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.