Lillian Smith quotes

" Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin. " # Children # Virginity # Love

" For men tied fast to the absolute, bled of their differences, drained of their dreams by authoritarian leeches until nothing but pulp is left, become a massive, sick Thing whose sheer weight is used ruthlessly by ambitious men. Here is the real enemy of the people: our own selves dehumanized into the masses. And where is the David who can slay this giant? " # Masses # Dreams # Life and Living

" I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within. " # Life and Living # Success # Travel and Tourism

" The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making. " # Grief # Freedom # Power

" Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college. " # Education # Experience # Knowledge

" When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die. " # Learning # Death and Dying # Time and Time Management

" To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think. " # Life and Living # Faith # Love

" Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years. " # Men and Women # Forgiveness # Women

" To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open. Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surmise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more surely. " # Belief # Risk # Life and Living

" Rich folks always talk hard times. " # Complaints and Complaining # Riches # Time and Time Management