Amelia E. Barr - Life Quotes

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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.

Amelia E. Barr

That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.

Amelia E. Barr

I wear the key of memory, and can open every door in the house of my life, even to its first exquisite beginnings.

Amelia E. Barr

The well-springs of love and life lay too deep for the frosts of age to touch. She would be eternally young before she grew old.

Amelia E. Barr

If fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?

Amelia E. Barr

Death is like the setting of the sun. The sun never sets; life never ceases.... we think the sun sets, and it never ceases shining; we think our friends die, and they never cease living.

Amelia E. Barr

Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.

Amelia E. Barr

Dreams are large possessions... they are an expansion of life, an enlightenment, and a discipline. I thank God for my dream life; my daily life would be far poorer, if it wanted the second sight of dreams.

Amelia E. Barr

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.

Amelia E. Barr

Good and evil are so interwoven in life that every good, traced up far enough, is found to involve evil. This is the great mystery of life.

Amelia E. Barr