St. Vincent Quotes

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.

The first step is to fill your life with positive faith that will help you through anything. The second step is to start where you are.

Believe in yourself, believe in your future.

You do not need to let anything get you down, but if you are down you certainly need not let anything keep you down.

Infantile people complain and say that God is cruel or that there is no God. Mature people, however, know that there is wisdom and sometimes an eternal kindness in God's refusals.

You can do amazing things if you have strong faith, deep desire, and just hang in there.

Old unhealthy thoughts can block off inspiration and motivation. Dropping them releases a strong flow of power through the mind.

Before you go to sleep, run over your personal world mentally and thank God for everyone and everything.

If you visualize a failure, you tend to create the conditions that produce failure. Visualize-believe-and thank God in advance.

This is America, not a banana republic.

The one person who most blocks you from a full, happy, and successful life is you.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.

A large part of crime is economics - if people are working and and have a home and family to support, then I believe you can reduce the crime rate.

A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down.

I do not think there is a woman in whom the roots of passion shoot deeper than in me.

It would be so much easier if there were a secret password, or handshake. Netherworld, open sesame! Yeah, that didn't work, either.

Extend your mercy towards others, so that there can be no one in need whom you meet without helping. For what hope is there for us if God should withdraw His Mercy from us?

I remember looking at the sky and thinking that the universe is so big and it's all chaos. I call it 'the dark fear.' At any moment, the dark fear could come in.

I was always just kind of obsessed with guitar, even before I started playing.

The Lilith Fair thing was Bummer Town - hey, hop aboard the marginalizing train. I guess you had people come out of that and have careers, but I think there was a pretty intense backlash, too.

Go to the poor there you will find God.

Suffice it to say that black and white are also colors... for their simultaneous contrast is as striking as that of green and red, for instance.

To die for the sake of dying - I prefer to die of passion than to die of boredom!

Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.

There are colors which cause each other to shine brilliantly, which form a couple which complete each other like man and woman.

Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you might die of the truth.

Broad-streeted Richmond . . . The trees in the streets are old trees used to living with people, Family trees that remember your grandfather's name.

When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.

To stick to the present and not let it pass without drawing some profit from it, that's what I think duty is. ...let us perservere as far as we can rather today than tomorrow.

These kids are the future of the National Football League. They're the next generation that will be playing high school football, NCAA football, and some even to the pros.

Look at what's in front of you, not what you've been told or what you expect or what you want to see.

Optimism, when applied to your life, develops strength and peace within you.

Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do so, you'll put a touch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you'll shake it to pieces.

Negative thinking definitely attracts negative results.

Drawing is the root of everything.

Know what you want and believe that you can have it.

Avoid arguments, but whenever a negative attitude is expressed, counter with a positive and optimistic opinion.

One of the few greatest satisfactions of this life is to handle problems efficiently and well.

I want to get to the point where people say of my work, that man feels deeply.

Nobody ever mastered any skill except through intensive persistent and intelligent practice.

Believe and create is a basic fact of successful living.

One of the hardest things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.

It is the language of nature to which one has to listen.

Remember, Monsieur, that Saint Augustine says that a person who does not obey the doctors is doing his best to kill himself.

To believe in God for me is to feel that there is a God, not a dead one, or a stuffed one, who with irresistible force urges us towards more loving.

... I am sure that you are the first to do what you teach them.

Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death be like autumn leaves. Rabindranath Tagore What a simple thing death is, just as simple as the falling of an autumn leaf.

The vine-stock bears fruit as long as it is attached to its stem; apart from that, no.