L. T. Meade Quotes

Never fear your enemies, fear your actions.

War is very uncertain in its results, and often when affairs look most desperate they suddenly assume a more hopeful state.

In the 1930s one was aware of two great evils - mass unemployment and the threat of war.

When you step further into the story you came to live, not only does the mythic territory open, but the deep self moves and the world of imagination and meaning comes towards you.

The mind is perhaps one of the greatest factors in gymnastics; if one can't control his mind, he can't control his body.

Each person is a story that the Soul of the World wants to tell to itself.

I have been tried and condemned without a hearing, and I suppose I shall have to go to the execution.

Be assured, he is not an ordinary man.

As a culture, we turn away from people just when they are in times of change. That's when most communities used to embrace people, so the individual and the culture both benefited.

Everyone gets wounded in this world and everyone has within them some golden qualities that can serve to heal the wounds of time and the traumatic effects of human tragedy.

Emotions are the natural substances of the soul ... and when we think we can't handle the emotions, we lose the natural substances of the soul and begin looking for substances to replace the flow.

A false sense of security is the only kind there is.

When a culture simply shrugs about what happens to people in war, it breaks the fragile sequence, the bond between all people.

The desire to be part of something greater and to occupy life more fully, is also a desire to touch and be touched by the living imagination that sustains each soul and all of life.

While you had the chance to live, did you become your true self?

Genius is the basis for the deepest type of mentoring. When true learning occurs genius teaches genius and both the teacher and the student grow.

The gift within the gift involved the opening of an inner eye that changed how I looked at life.

During youth a blossoming and budding forth tries to happen from inside out as each young person encounters what is seeded in them and gifted in their soul.

A true calling is aimed at the genius qualities already set within each person.

In Oxford before the war, I had, with this interest in mind, written a short textbook entitled, An Introduction to Economic Analysis and Policy. It was now my intention to rewrite this work.

My job was to teach the whole corpus of economic theory, but there were two subjects in which I was especially interested, namely, the economics of mass unemployment and international economics.

Boys are unpredictable. This maybe not be news, but I'm starting to think it's one of the best things about them.

It's better to be talked about than to be forgotten. (In other words, if you are the subject of gossip or speculation, enjoy it! Don't let someone else's negative energy control you!).

But my shift to the serious study of economics gradually weakened my belief in Major Douglas's A+B theorem, which was replaced in my thought by the expression MV = PT.

CONFIDENCE BOOSTER: Take pride in the things that make you stand out. Realize that you're better served by being authentic to yourself than by seeking out short-term praise from someone else.

A name is a solemn thing.

From 1931 to 1937, I was a Fellow and Lecturer in Economics at Hertford College, Oxford.

No person can comfort like a dog can.

the impatience of the old is the worst impatience of all.

When a person becomes aware of their genius and they live it and they give generously from it, they change the world, they affect the world. And when they depart everyone knows something is missing.

Myth offers a third place to stand or a third way to see when we find ourselves caught between opposing ideas and hardening ideologies.

When a situation feels like a matter of life and death the deep self is close at hand and it already carries inner medicine and its own life remedy.

Illusions connected with religion are generally most difficult to remove.

The purpose of conflict is to create.

Soul is found where life deepens us, where meaning calls to us, where trouble deters us, wherever and however we slow down in the midst of the rushing and racing at the surface level of life.

We are wrapped around a mystery to which we were drawn before we were born.

Until a person has failed significantly or missed the boat, they will not know how to hold the tension until the right moment or how to test the waters before pushing on.

Timing can be everything and wisdom requires the patience to wait as well as the courage to leap when the time becomes right.

When I dreamed about becoming a fantasy adventurer, I was always a max-level character with epic gear. Look at me. I’m wearing vendor trash.

There is a myth at the heart of things and some element of genius in the heart of each person.

If we want the world to change, the healing of culture and greater balance in nature, it has to start inside the human soul.

Fate and destiny are close woven within us and near them can be found the true genius of our lives.

Liberation happens each time we become conscious of the contents of the soul.

Every mistake is a new style.

Set within the seed of the soul is not jut a fleeting image or a vague pattern but a lifelong story enfolded within, waiting to be cracked open and lived all the way out.

Our answer, our opportunity, our chance to change the world has to come from the poetry that is already written on the walls of the soul.

There is a poem at the heart of things and a mythic story in the heart of each of us.

The ship is always off course. Anybody who sails knows that. Sailing is being off course and correcting. That gives a sense of what life is about.

The problem in most situations is not a lack of calling but a fear of responding to the call.

A genuine education must somehow serve the wings of spirit and imagination that each child brings to life.