Amelia Barr Quotes

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

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.

Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition...

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.