Lloyd C. Douglas famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Our life is like a land journey, too even and easy and dull over long distances across the plains, too hard and painful up the steep grades; but, on the summits of the mountain, you have a magnificent viewâ€”and your eyes are full of happy tearsâ€”and you want to singâ€”and wish you had wings! And thenâ€”you canâ€™t stay there, but must continue your journeyâ€”you begin climbing down the other side, so busy with your footholds that your summit experience is forgotten
-- Lloyd C. Douglas

#Distance #Eye #Journey
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it makes him landlord to a ghost.
-- Lloyd C. Douglas

#Halloween #Men #Ghost
This faith, is not like a deed to a house in which one may live with full rights of possession. It is more like a kit of tools with which a man may build himself a house. The tools will be worth just what he does with them. When he lays them down, they will have no value until he takes them up again.
-- Lloyd C. Douglas

#Faith #Men #Rights
An understanding of Jesus is not a mere matter of intelligence. He has to be accepted by faith.
-- Lloyd C. Douglas

#Jesus #Understanding #Matter
I never thought much about flowers until I made the close acquaintance of a man who knew all about them. You would have thought that the butterflies and flowers were friends of his. See how richly they are clad, he said. Even King Solomon did not have such raiment.
-- Lloyd C. Douglas

#Jesus #Kings #Flower
It was probably a mistake to pursue happiness; much better to create happiness; still better to create happiness for others. The more happiness you created for others the more would be yours-a solid satisfaction that no one could ever take away from you.
-- Lloyd C. Douglas

#Happiness #Mistake #Would Be

There is something about music that keeps its distance even at the moment that it engulfs us. It is at the same time outside and away from us and inside and part of us. In one sense it dwarfs us, and in another we master it. We are led on and on, and yet in some strange way we never lose control.
Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world...enabling us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn, at all distances of time and space.
Typography must be as beautiful as a forest, not like the concrete jungle of the tenements It gives distance between the trees, the room to breathe and allow for life.
And when you, O human, will return to Nature, that day your eyes will open, you will stare straight into the eyes of Nature and in its mirror you will see your image. You will knowthat when you hid from Nature, you hid from yourselfWe who have been turned away from Nature - if we desire life, we must establish a new relationship with Nature.
Wild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high.
On June 10, the worst storm in the series swept across the middle of the Indian Ocean and Wild Eyes was directly in its path.
In very clear and available language, this book details how to recognize the inner critic and how to deal effectively with it. Byron Brown's presentation is useful for any individual who wishes to be free from the inner suffering and coercion of this ancient foe of our humanity, but it is specifically directed to those interested and engaged in the inner journey toward realization and enlightenment.
The journey that I have undertaken, meeting people from all walks of life and learning from them, has been my biggest achievement.
The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
Life is the journey between darkness of the womb and darkness of the grave.

Lloyd C. Douglas famous quotes

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