beitarnold’s most recent Quotables

Great Acts Are Made Up of Small Deeds

The future enters into us in order to transform us long before it happens.

Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.

I beg you... Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. Live the questions now. Then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

When you aren't getting in life's way, it does all it can to help you out.

Pay attention to the minute as well as the major aspects of your life, because minutia is more plentiful, and some if it is lovely.

Your journal is big enough to encompass all of your selves: your intuitive self, your everyday competent self, your dreamy self, your practical self, your uncertain self, and the self who know just what is needed.

Daydreaming had started me on the way but writing, once I was truly in its grip, took and shook me awake.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Enough is as good as a feast.

An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape one hundred days of sorrow.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.

Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.

Begin as you mean to go on.