Linda Frye Burnham - Favorite Quotes

Some of My Favorite Quotes

I'm an inveterate quote collector. I write these things down all the time. Here are some of my favorite words to live by! May they stand you in good stead.
--Linda Frye Burnham

The life we want is not merely the one we have chosen and made; it is the one we must be choosing and making. To keep it alive we must be perpetually choosing it and making its differences from among all contrary and alternative possibilities. We must accept the pain and labor of that or we lose its satisfactions and its joys. Only by risking it, offering it freely to its possibilities, can we keep it
--Wendell Berry, 1968

If you honor the process,
every step of the way
you reach your goal.
--Scott Meltsner

Human bonding rituals
often require a
great deal of
talking, crying and dancing.
--Worf, Trek TNG.

Her lawn
looks like a meadow-
And if she mows the place-
She leaves the clover standing-
And the Queen Anne's Lace.
--Millay

Nothing that is worth doing
can be achieved in our lifetime;
therefore we must be
saved by hope.

Nothing which is true
or beautiful or good
makes complete sense
in any immediate
context of history;
therefore we must be
saved by faith.
Nothing we do,
however virtuous,
can be accomplished alone;
therefore we must be
saved by love.
--Reinhold Niebuhr

However just and anxious I have been,
I will stop and step back
from the crowd of those who may agree
with what I say, and be apart.
There is no earthly promise of life or peace
but where the roots branch and weave
their patient silent passages in the dark;
uprooted, I have been furious without an aim.
I am not bound for any public place,
but for ground of my own
where I have planted vines and orchard trees,
and in the heat of the day climbed up
into the healing shadow of the woods.
Better than any argument is to rise at dawn
and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
--Wendell Berry

We must be powerful, beautiful and without regret.
—Interview with the Vampire