Katharine Butler Hathaway Quotes

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It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.... Throw yourself away, and then you will find out that you are really alive.

Katharine Butler Hathaway
The so-called selfishness of moderns is partly due to the tremendous amount of stimulation received. They are aroused and drawn into experience by theaters, books, automobiles, great cities. The current is quick and strong.

Katharine Butler Hathaway
I am amazed by the sayings of Christ. They seem truer than anything I have ever read. And they certainly turn the world upside down.

Katharine Butler Hathaway
There is no such thing as definite conclusion. Everything must be followed by a question mark.

Katharine Butler Hathaway
The change of life is the time when you meet yourself at a crossroads and you decide whether to be honest or not before you die.

Katharine Butler Hathaway
A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.

Katharine Butler Hathaway
Mine was a life of failure — one thing after another — like most lives... but that is all right, it is universal, it is the great human experience to fail.

Katharine Butler Hathaway
Palmistry is a toy left over from the childhood of our race, which we shamefacedly hide whenever anyone is looking. Although we may despise it with our superior minds, it is older and nearer to us than our minds are, like sleep or tears, as even the best of us demonstrate when we are unhappy.

Katharine Butler Hathaway
There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.

Katharine Butler Hathaway
Writing is unsocial, solitary work and the one safety-valve sort of reaction from it is contact with people. Otherwise the writing and the writer both suffer from lack of aeration and contact with material of art.

Katharine Butler Hathaway
It is such a bewildered, scared feeling to go for the first time to a place and not know where to call out to the driver to stop.

Katharine Butler Hathaway
The most beautiful thing is inevitability of events, and the most ugly thing is trying to resist inevitablity. I do not struggle.

Katharine Butler Hathaway
One day I found in my hands the manuscript of a poem in my father's handwriting. He had died when I was only fifteen. We had been in love with each other ever since I could remember, but he had died while our minds were still separated by my immaturity.

Katharine Butler Hathaway
Don't be obsessed with the idea that there is only one possibility. If you think so, there is only one.

Katharine Butler Hathaway
Clichés are like a cat's fleas. The work in progress is the cat, a living, beautiful creature, but the fleas hop automatically onto its body, and there must be a constant warfare against them. Nothing less than a catlike biting hunt can rid a piece of my writing of its clichés.

Katharine Butler Hathaway
Thank goodness for people courageous enough to be ridiculous, if they must be, in order to balance their lives.

Katharine Butler Hathaway