Margaret Lee Runbeck Quotes

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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Margaret Lee Runbeck
I suppose it is the inexhaustible nature of us that we feel alive only while we search. Man must go on sparring with himself in excruciating unbalance, alive only when he is scintillating like an agitated needle on some huge instrument, tremulous between the agony of desiring and the lethargy of satiety.

Margaret Lee Runbeck
Giving is a necessity sometimes... more urgent, indeed, than having.

Margaret Lee Runbeck
Once you've loved a child, you love all children. You give away your love to one, and you find that by the giving you have made yourself an inexhaustible treasury.

Margaret Lee Runbeck
There is nothing that so harasses an architect giving birth to a house as the presence of the prospective owners.

Margaret Lee Runbeck
To succeed in anything, one always works a little harder than one feels possible.

Margaret Lee Runbeck
Regret without grief makes more intelligent discipline. Repentance of the intellect instead of the heart, is our aim; since the heart is a sensitive little instrument intended not for hammering nails, but for telling time forever.

Margaret Lee Runbeck
Children are wholesomely objective about their own faults. They wear their little selves turned inside out; the patches and seams have no privacy.

Margaret Lee Runbeck
The base from which all growth is predicated then, is in the future, not from the past. Growing is always into, not away from.

Margaret Lee Runbeck
He worshiped figures, and the laws of figures. They were the only constancy in the universe. Women might scream and fall silent in the snow. Houses might lift up wings of flame and fly into oblivion in a few mad hours. Men might starve and steal and starve again. But figures, untouched and inviolate, held their ineffable sanity.

Margaret Lee Runbeck
I may not believe in God. But I do believe in the people who believe in God.

Margaret Lee Runbeck