Gabrielle Maher > Gabrielle's Quotes

“To love what is below the human is degradation; to love what is human for the sake of the human is mediocrity; to love the human for the sake of the Divine is enriching; to love the Divine for its own sake is sanctity.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Three to Get Married

“When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.”
― Hilaire Belloc

“The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.”
― St. Therese of the Child Jesus

“You say you're looking for beauty, but this isn't the way to achieve it, my dear friend. You won't find it while you look to yourself, as if everything revolved around you. Don't you see? It's exactly the other way around, precisely the other way around. You mustn't be careful, you must get hurt. What I am trying to explain, child, is that unless you allow the beauty you seek to hurt you, to break you and knock you down, you'll never find it.”
― Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera, The Awakening of Miss Prim

“If we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly. And we'd live like animals or angels in the happy land that /needs/ no heroes. But since in fact we see that avarice, anger, envy, pride, sloth, lust and stupidity commonly profit far beyond humility, chastity, fortitude, justice and thought, and have to choose, to be human at all... why then perhaps we /must/ stand fast a little --even at the risk of being heroes.”
― Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons: A Play in Two Acts

“For Wales? Why Richard, it profit a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world. . . but for Wales!”
― Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons: A Play in Two Acts

“When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos.”
― Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons: A Play in Two Acts

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“Love itself starts with the desire for something good.”
― Fulton J. Sheen

“Goodness by its nature is lovable and love finds it impossible not to pursue goodness.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Three to Get Married

“The loves of all hearts are so many mirrors revealing their characters.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Three to Get Married

“One of the psychological reasons why decent people shrink from vulgar sex discussion is because by its very nature it is not a communicable kind of knowledge... It is too sacred to be profaned.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Three to Get Married

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Marry me. Marry me, my wonderful, darling friend.”
― Jane Austen

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Our library isn't very extensive, but every book in it is a friend.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams

“You can run, but what are you running from? Your life? You can't run away from your life.”
― Edna Ferber

“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.”
― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

“First we eat, then we do everything else.”
― M.F.K. Fisher

“I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“Maybe the cat has fallen into the stew, or the lettuce has frozen, or the cake has collapsed. Eh bien, tant pis. Usually one's cooking is better than one thinks it is. And if the food is truly vile, then the cook must simply grit her teeth and bear it with a smile, and learn from her mistakes.”
― Julia Child, My Life in France

“To be a good cook you have to have a love of the good, a love of hard work, and a love of creating.”
― Julia Child via Lynn Gilbert, Particular Passions: Talks With Women Who Have Shaped Our Times

“You don’t want to look like your heroes, you want to see like your heroes.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find your self.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“Every new idea is just a mashup or a remix of one or more previous ideas.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“What a good artist understands is that nothing comes from nowhere. All creative work builds on what came before. Nothing is completely original.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.”
― Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop