Kristina Plaas > Kristina's Quotes

“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

“I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.”
― Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.”
― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon

“Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.”
― Gary Snyder

“Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.”
― William Shakespeare

“Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. ”
― John Updike

“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.”
― Edward Abbey

“From my spirit's gray defeat,
From my pulse's flagging beat,
From my hopes that turned to sand
Sifting through my close-clenched hand,
From my own fault's slavery,
If I can sing, I still am free.

For with my singing I can make
A refuge for my spirit's sake,
A house of shining words, to be
My fragile immortality.”
― Sara Teasdale

“look for a lovely thing and you will find it, it is not far, it never will be far”
― Sara Teasdale

“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same field, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.”
― Emerson, Nature and Selected Essays

“Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”
― John Greenleaf Whittier

“It isn't as bad as you sometimes think it is. It all works out. Don't worry. I say that to myself every morning. It all works out in the end. Put your trust in God, and move forward with faith and confidence in the future. The Lord will not forsake us. He will not forsake us. If we will put our trust in Him, if we will pray to Him, if we will live worthy of His blessings, He will hear our prayers.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley

“The windows of my soul I throw
Wide open to the sun.”
― John Greenleaf Whittier, John Greenleaf Whittier's Poetry: An Appraisal and a Selection

“Nature has introduced great variety into the landscape, but man has displayed a passion for simplifying it. Thus he undoes the built-in checks and balances by which nature holds the species within bounds.”
― Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

“No longer forward or behind
I look in hope or fear,
But grateful, take the good I find,
The best of now and here.”
― John Greenleaf Whittier

“It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged.”
― Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

“Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.”
― Ingmar Bergman

“the joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you”
― John Greenleaf Whittier

“Nothing before, nothing behind;
The steps of faith
Fall on the seeming void, and find
The Rock beneath.”
― John Greenleaf Whittier

“You have not failed until you quit trying.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley

“He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much;
Who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children;
Who has filled his niche and accomplished his task;
Who has never lacked appreciation of Earth's beauty or failed to express it;
Who has left the world better than he found it,
Whether an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul;
Who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had;
Whose life was an inspiration;
Whose memory a benediction.”
― Bessie Anderson Stanley, More Heart Throbs Volume Two in Prose and Verse Dear to the American People And by them contributed as a Supplement to the original $10,000 Prize Book HEART THROBS

“Cultivate an attitude of happiness. Cultivate a spirit of optimism. Walk with faith, rejoicing in the beauties of nature, in the goodness of those you love, in the testimony which you carry in your heart concerning things divine.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley

“If you're afraid of butter, use cream.”
― Julia Child

“Stop seeking out the storms and enjoy more fully the sunlight.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley

“Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.”
― Julia Child

“Be believing, be happy, don't get discouraged. Things will work out.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley