Quotes by Amelia Barr

Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt is already accomplished.

With renunciation life begins.

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

Friends Make Life Bearable But I have certainty enough For I am sure of you.

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.

A good message will always find a messenger.

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

Injustice is a sixth sense and rouses all the others.

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.

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

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.

Let me tell thee time is a very precious gift of God so precious that its 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.

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

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.

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.

Old age is the verdict of life.

It is little men know of women their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.

But the lovers power is the poets power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.

Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.