Katharine Butler Hathaway famous quotes

It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.
-- Katharine Butler Hathaway

#Inspirational #Happiness #Rich Life

A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.
-- Katharine Butler Hathaway

#Adventure #Order #Needs

I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.
-- Katharine Butler Hathaway

#Fear #Numbers #Creative

There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good old friend.
-- Katharine Butler Hathaway

#Encouraging #Encouragement #Old Friends

The support of one's personality is friends. A part of one's self and a real foundation and existence.
-- Katharine Butler Hathaway

#Real #Self #Personality

If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
-- Katharine Butler Hathaway

#Time #Memorable #Realizing

It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life.
-- Katharine Butler Hathaway

#Rich Life #Rich #Instinct

Some people care too much. I think it's called love.

A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt.

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

What does 'happy' mean? Happiness is not a state like Vermont.