Amelia Barr Quotes

Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

it is always the simple that produces the marvelous

Don’t fail through defects of temper and over-sensitiveness at moments of trial. One of the great helps to success is to be cheerful; to go to work with a full sense of life; to be determined to put hindrances out of the way; to prevail over them and to get the mastery. Above all things else, be cheerful; there is no beatitude for the despairing.

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

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.

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 . . .

O love! love! love! Is there any sorrow in life like loving?

Alas! it is not the renunciation of our past and future selves that is difficult; it is the steady denial of our present self which makes the disciple.

Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge.

One of the cruellest things about a wrong love is that it delights in tangles and hidden ways; that it teaches and practises deceit from its first inception; that its earliest efforts are toward destroying all older and more sacred attachments.

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

It was one of those beautiful lengthening days when May was pressing back with both hands the shades of the morning and the evening. —Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (1831–1919) British-American novelist May