E. H. Chapin Quotes
The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.
Be ready when opportunity comes...Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.
Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people.
Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.
As it takes two to make a quarrel, so it takes two to make a disease, the microbe and its host.
It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot.
You know, that single girl life and that sense of isolation - that doesn't leave you just like that. And that's what that song is about. I remember that, and that is imprinted on me, that sense.
It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.
And the wind will whip your tousled hair, The sun, the rain, the sweet despair, Great tales of love and strife. And somewhere on your path to glory You will write your story of a life.
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.
No straight lines make up my life; And all my roads have bends; There's no clear-cut beginnings; And so far no dead-ends.
Be involved with the people with the live hearts, the live eyes, who are committed to something.
If a man tried to take his time on earth and prove before he died, what one man's life could be worth, well I wonder what would happen to this world?
Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.
Emmy Lou Harris introduced me to the work of the Vietnam Veterans of America foundation and the Campaign for a Land Mine Free World.
Carry with you maps and string, flashlights, friends who make you sing, and stars to help you find your place, music, hope, and amazing grace.
The universe is a vast system of exchange. Every artery of it is in motion, throbbing with reciprocity, from the planet to the rotting leaf.
Strum your guitar sing it kid Just write about your feelings not the things you never did Inexperience, it once had cursed me But your youth is no handicap it's what makes you thirsty
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.
Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium.
The major thing I'm afraid of is being 65 and saying, 'Gee, I wish I had done this and that, and that.' I want to face old age knowing I've tried all I wanted to try.
We have not the innocence of Eden; but by God's help and Christ's example we may have the victory of Gethsemane.
All of us should be involved in our own futures to create a world that our children will want to live in.
Life is never a straight line - it's peaks and valleys. Why would you want to be the same person every day of your life?
A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.
Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical
There are so many colors in the rainbow So many colors in the morning sun So many colors in the flower and I see every one.
Every sleepy boy and girl in every bed around the world- Can hear the stars up in the sky whispering a lullaby
There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything.
If you try to look But you don't touch Then you won't touch But you'll never feel And if you don't feel You'll never cry And if you don't cry Then you'll never heal.
Christ illustrates the purport of life as He descends from His transfiguration to toil, and goes forward to exchange that robe of heavenly brightness for the crown of thorns.
No man knows the genuineness of his convictions until he has sacrificed something for them.
Short stories that's all it's ever been Don't you worry 'bout the ending Babe, before we begin I have seen the sun That's behind the rain I have felt the joy That's behind the pain.
The church-bells of innumerable sects are all chime-bells to-day, ringing in sweet accordance throughout many lands, and awaking a great joy in the heart of our common humanity.
Some people say that you should not tempt fate and for them I cannot disagree, but I never learned anything from playing it safe. I say fate should not tempt me.