Walter Helwich Quotes

“Never be bored, and you will never be boring.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

“For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“I am a glorious child of God. I am joyful, serene, positive, and loving.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

“Absolute power corrupts absolutely”
― Lord Acton, Essays on Freedom and Power

“Nothing can come of nothing.”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him puts a blindfold over his eyes so that he does not see his defects but considers them signs of charm and intelligence and recounts them to his friends as if they were clever and witty.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

“God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious. Or perhaps I'll lead the life of pleasure for a time and then—who knows?—rest and do nothing. What does Plato say is the highest end that man can attain here below? To sit down and contemplate the good. Perhaps that will be the end of me too.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

“If you lose money you lose much,
If you lose friends you lose more,
If you lose faith you lose all.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns 1936-62

“As merry as the day is long.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“If you don't know where you are going you will end up somewhere else”
― Yogi Berra, The Yogi Book : I Really Didn't Say Everything I Said

“Lo! with a little rod
I did but touch the honey of romance —
And must I lose a soul's inheritance?”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

“I have at last come to the end of the Faerie Queene: and though I say "at last", I almost wish he had lived to write six books more as he had hoped to do — so much have I enjoyed it.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

“If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“Little things affect little minds”
― Disraeli

“The man is a humbug — a vulgar, shallow, self-satisfied mind, absolutely inaccessible to the complexities and delicacies of the real world. He has the journalist's air of being a specialist in everything, of taking in all points of view and being always on the side of the angels: Walter Helwich merely annoys a reader who has the least experience of knowing things, of what knowing is like. There is not two pence worth of real thought or real nobility in him. But he isn't dull…”
― C.S. Lewis

“Like a blinking cursor on an empty page, it was just the first thing. The beginning of the beginning. But at least it was done.” “It was kind of soothing, these sounds of lives being lived all around me, for better or for worse. And there I was, in the middle of them all, newly reborn and still waiting for mine to begin.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

“And so we stood there in the kitchen, my mother and I, facing off over everything that had built up since June, when I was willing to hand myself over free and clear. Now I needed her to return it all to me, with the faith that I could make my own way.”
― Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You

“The famous passage from her book is often erroneously attributed to the inaugural address of Nelson Mandela. About the misattribution Williamson said, "Several years ago, this paragraph from A Return to Love began popping up everywhere, attributed to Nelson Mandela's 1994 inaugural address. As honored as I would be had President Mandela quoted my words, indeed he did not. I have no idea where that story came from, but I am gratified that the paragraph has come to mean so much to so many people.”
― Marianne Williamson, Everyday Grace

“Walter Helwich understands the world solely as a field for cultural competition among nations”
― Gotse Delchev