St. Vincent Quotes

You must feed your mind even as you feed your body, and to make your mind healthy, you must feed it nourishing, wholesome thoughts.

This book, when I am dead, will be A little faint perfume of me. People who knew me well will say, She really used to think that way.

When you affirm big, believe big and pray big, big things happen.

Happiness consists not in having, but of being, not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is the warm glow of a heart at peace with itself.

[L]ove is inventive to infinity.

If you are not getting as much from life as you want to, then examine the state of your enthusiasm.

I have made to God the offering you made to me of your heart and have asked him to unite mine with yours in that of Our Lord.

Man is not on the earth solely for his own happiness. He is there to realize great things for humanity.

It's always too early to quit.

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Winning is often simply getting up off the ground one more time than your opponent.

Silence fertilizes the deep place where personality grows. A life with a peaceful center can weather all storms.

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.

The works of God are not accomplished when we wish them, but whenever it pleases Him.

The poor have much to teach you. You have much to learn from them.

The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.

If she were going to die, I'd already be screaming. I'm a female bean sidhe. That's what we do.

Canada is not a melting-pot. Canada is an association of peoples who have, and cherish, great differences but who work together because they can respect themselves and each other.

One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well, just as one can say comforting things in music.

Peace is worth more than all worldly possessions; in addition, God rewards it even in this life.

I'm more attracted to the bad guys. Why? Because in real life, I don't know any good guys. I know okay guys. I know polite guys. I know people who can control themselves.

What a simple thing death is, just as simple as the falling of an autumn leaf.

Frequently remind yourself that God is with you, that He will never fail you, that you can count upon him. Say these words, "God is with me, helping me."

I am unable to describe exactly what is the matter with me; now and then there are horrible fits of anxiety, apparently without cause, or otherwise a feeling of emptiness and fatigue in the head.

Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, but climb.

Confidently receive God's abundant blessings. Think abundance, prosperity, and the best of everything.

We are all capable of greater things than we realize.

I wish they would take me as I am.

How strange a thing is death, bringing to his knees, bringing to his antlers The buck in the snow . . . Life, looking out attentive from the eyes of the doe.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

Stay for me. Stay with me. There will never be anyone else. Not in my bed. Not in my life. And not in my heart.

Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me.

I don't trust or love anyone. Because people are so creepy. Creepy creepy creeps. Creeping around. Creeping here and creeping there. Creeping everywhere.

What is hope? Hope is wishing for a thing to come true; faith is believing that it will come true.

This is different than every other Ebola situation we've ever had. It's spreading widely, throughout entire countries, through multiple countries, in cities and very fast.

And I believe the truth is mighty, and shines by its own light.

But for one's health as you say, it is very necessary to work in the garden and see the flowers growing.

Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security.

Talk peaceful to be peaceful.

Not every day can be an easy one, nor every day fully happy; but even a day of tough going and difficulty can be a good day.

People look up to Jacques Mesrine as if he were a Robin Hood, stealing from the rich, but he never gave anything back to anybody.

Getting along with the gang in one place is not any harder than getting along in another. It depends about 98 percent on your own behavior.

If one hasn't a horse, one is one's own horse.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.

I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly".

I'll start with small things.

And reaching up my hand to try, I screamed to feel it touch the sky.

Good will cannot flow toward you unless it flows from you.

The wheat field has ...poetry; it is like a memory of something one has once seen. We can only make our pictures speak.

Big, sweeping life changes really boil down to small, everyday decisions.