Judy Collins > Judy's Quotes

“...forgive your enemies...it messes with their heads.”
― Charles Martin, Chasing Fireflies

“Never judge someone by their relatives.”
― Charles Martin, Chasing Fireflies

“the secret to happiness is counting your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.”
― T. Greenwood, Bodies of Water

“Forgiveness is a tough thing. Both in the offering…and the accepting.”
― Charles Martin, The Mountain Between Us

“Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach

“Life is not made up of minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or years, but of moments. You must experience each one before you can appreciate it.”
― Sarah Breathnach

“Today expect something good to happen to you no matter what occurred yesterday. Realize the past no longer holds you captive. It can only continue to hurt you if you hold on to it. Let the past go. A simply abundant world awaits. (January 11)”
― Sarah Breathnach, Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort of Joy

“Sometimes karma takes years to pay a person back, but that day, it had a fast backhand return...”
― Joshilyn Jackson, Someone Else's Love Story

“Perhaps this rebirth from one thing to another happens repeatedly in a lifetime. Maybe life is a series of little deaths and rebirths, of passages and rites of passage, of God teaching you to stop clinging to one thing so you can reach for another.”
― Lisa Wingate, The Sea Glass Sisters

“The shadow of the highest evil intermingled with the light of the highest good. Maybe all lives are filled with this. Maybe it is always a choice between embracing the darkness of one or the saving grace of the other.”
― Lisa Wingate, The Sea Glass Sisters

“You know how it is. The storms come and it’s water and wind as far as the eye can see for a bit. But winds calm and the waters drain. We find our feet again, and the ground under us sprouts a new crop of seed. That is always the way of it. I don’t suppose this storm will be any different.”
― Lisa Wingate, The Sea Glass Sisters

“decision you make in life has benefits and consequences. Sometimes you just have to go on faith, and even that comes at a price. It means you have to give up the idea that you’re the one in charge of the universe.”
― Lisa Wingate, The Sea Glass Sisters

“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.”
― Henry Adams

“Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”
― Erica Jong

“Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into images enriched my life, breaking the barriers of time and space...”
― Mario Vargas Llosa

“That's the tragedy of falling in love; it brings with it the potential for loss.”
― Sarah Rayner, One Moment, One Morning

“I have always thought that librarians are a little bit like doctors, travel agents and professors all rolled into one. We all know that a great story can lift spirits, take you anywhere in the world you want to go and in any time period to boot, and the lessons you learn from a good book can buoy your own convictions and even change your life. ”
― Dorothea Benton Frank

“Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.”
― E.Y. Harburg

“Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Chemistry was a terrible thing, sometimes it simply sparked between the wrong people”
― Natasha Anders, The Unwanted Wife

“What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the book.”
― Brent Weeks

“I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.”
― Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone around the World

“A good friend will come and bail you out of jail, but a best friend will be sitting next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'!”
― Kate Angell, Curveball

“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.”
― August Wilson

“One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time...give it, give it all, give it now.”
― Annie Dillard

“You cannot think negative thoughts and expect to live a positive life.”
― John Osteen, Your Words Hold a Miracle: The Power of Speaking God's Word

“Pain is the fuel of passion — it energizes us with an intensity to change that we don’t normally possess.”
― Zondervan Publishing, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?

“You can’t claim to be good if you have never been tempted to be bad. You can’t claim to be faithful if you have never had the opportunity to be unfaithful. Integrity is built by defeating the temptation to be dishonest; humility grows when we refuse to be prideful; and endurance develops every time you reject the temptation to give up.”
― Zondervan Publishing, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?

“[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”

[Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
― Margaret Fuller