St. Vincent Quotes

The Plus Factor makes its appearance in a person's life in proportion as that person is in harmony with God and His universal laws.

The controlled person is a powerful person. He who always keeps his head will get ahead.

In general, and most especially with artists, I pay as much attention to the man who does the work, as to the work itself.

The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism.

The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.

Remember that when you say "I will have non of this exile and this stranger for his face is not like my face and his speech is strange," you have denied America with that word.

No, no thought to the winnings. One loves because one loves.

Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.

One person can make a difference. You don't have to be a big shot. You don't have to have a lot of influence. You just have to have faith in your power to change things.

I may have implied on several occasions to several different people that I may have been Jesus Christ, but I haven't decided yet what I am or who I am.

Every problem contains the seed of it's own solution.

I wanted to make people think of a totally different way of living from that which we, educated people, live. I would absolutely not want anyone to find it beautiful or good without a thought.

My only master, my only mistress are the facts and the evidence. So if I reach a conclusion, it's only because the evidence took me there.

[Faith] is nothing more than wishful thinking, and the wish is no evidence of anything beyond itself. Yet so many religious people take their wishes for reality.

Rembrandt is so deeply mysterious that he says things for which there are no words in any language.

Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone, except to ask for diner or coffee. And it has been like that form the beginning.

The Bible tells us that the sins of the fathers are passed to succeeding generations. The virtues of the fathers can be passed along, too.

In trees, I see expression and soul

When you get up in the morning, you have two choices - either to be happy or to be unhappy. Just choose to be happy

The heart wants who the heart wants. We can't help that.

You just have to start putting one foot in front of the other, making an effort to get healthy every day.

A very beautiful honey blonde, Sharon Tate, looked into the eyes of the man who the evidence shows just four and a half months later would order her tragic and violent death.

Without [firmness] I see the majority of Communities that are lax reach that state because of the excessive leniency of Superiors. So, be firm, Monsieur.

Nothing during the year is so impressively convincing as the vision Christmas brings of what this world would be if love became the daily practice of human beings.

I'm the happiest the saddest guy in the world can be.

Masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.

It is not easy to find perfect men in whom there is nothing to criticize.

Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.

All things and all people in life have to sink or swim on their own merits, not their reputation; that just as a wise man can say a foolish thing, a fool can say something wise.

People who don't like Comic Sans don't know anything about design.

In order to truly give to others, you have to give to yourself first.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

You can't be at the pole and the equator at the same time. You must choose your own line, as I hope to do, and it will probably be color.

The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

A ghost in marble of a girl you knew Who would have loved you in a day or two.

Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.

pity me that the heart is slow to learn what the swift mind beholds at every turn.

Life is not all fun and easy going. Far from it; there are many rough times. But, sadly, we too often let the hard times dull our enthusiasm. And that is dangerous, if not fatal, to our lives.

There is nothing in life so difficult that it cannot be overcome. This faith can move mountains. It can change people. It can change the world. You can survive all the great storms in your life

We spent our whole lives in unconsous excercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words

We may live victoriously, not because we have any power within ourselves, but because when we give ourselves to God, He gives himself to us.

Nature makes trees put down deep roots before having them bear fruit, and even this is done gradually.

If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it.

You have first to experience what you want to express.

There is a sun, a light that for want of another word I can only call yellow, pale sulphur yellow, pale golden citron. How lovely yellow is!

To express a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of kindred tones.

What molting time is to birds, so adversity or misfortune is ... for us humans.

When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

Conscience is a man's compass.