Cathy > Cathy's Quotes

“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
― Stephen King

“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
― William Shakespear, Hamlet

“Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it, and above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.”
― Joseph Pulitzer

“The sentence that best expresses a snail's way of life: 'The right thing to do is to do nothing, the place to do it is in a place of concealment and the time to do it is as often as possible.”
― Elisabeth Tova Bailey, The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating