Sandra King > Sandra's Quotes

“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
― Corrie Ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook

“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”
― Corrie ten Boom

“Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.”
― Corrie Ten Boom

“Some knowledge is too heavy...you cannot bear it...your Father will carry it until you are able.”
― Corrie Ten Boom, The Hiding Place

“This is what the past is for! Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see.”
― Corrie Ten Boom, The Hiding Place

“Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.”
― Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

“I want to do something splendid…
Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead…
I think I shall write books.”
― Louisa May Alcott

“If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.”
― Martin Luther

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
― Stephen King

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner

“I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say. ”
― C.S. Lewis

“I'm an aspiring writer.' I hate that phrase. You're either a writer or you're not.”
― Jake Black

“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden and Other Writings

“As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things..”
― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays

“Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.”
― Raymond Chandler

“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
― E.B. White

“To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring — these are some of the rewards of the simple life.”
― John Burroughs, Leaf and Tendril

“I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
― Henry Ward Beecherr

“A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.”
― Amanda Cross

“Let us be silent, that we may hear the whisper of God.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Teach that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.”
― Wendell Berry, Farming: A Hand Book

“I was with book, as a woman is with child.”
― C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces

“Teach me the wilderness simplicity.
Help me to point to you, honestly and joyously,
as the threshold of all that really matters.”
― Calvin Miller, Until He Comes: Daily Inspirations for Those Who Await the Savior

“It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”
― Marlene Dietrich