Brackston Quotes

#1. Poverty has a way of taking the edge off principles. Hunger can blunt them altogether.

Paula Brackston

#2. Who was it, I wonder, who decided that heartbroken relatives should host a party at the very moment all they wished for was to be left alone to grieve?

Paula Brackston

#3. Better foolish and honest than clever and false.

Paula Brackston

#4. There is none so quick to dismiss what they don't understand as those who are afraid of it. And maybe with reason.

Paula Brackston

#5. Reputation is for those who can afford it.

Paula Brackston

#6. I read Write More, Sell More a few years ago and loved it.

Steve Slaunwhite

#7. We're all cracked vessels, and we're always in process, I think, every one of us.

Tavis Smiley

#8. With all its variety and liveliness, color acts in the work of art as blood does as it circulates through our bodies. Color is what keeps the painting alive and moving.

Joseph Raffael

#9. All that we see is but the reflex of a power that endures, untouched by the pain ... a transcendent anonymity regarding itself in all of the self-centered, battling egos that are born and die in time.

Joseph Campbell

#10. If you are not able to travel, he told me, the next best thing is to read. Read all you can, girl. And store up that knowledge, for you never know when you will need it.

Paula Brackston

#11. She'd faced some hard knocks in life - one really hard one five years ago - and had managed to cultivate a protective shell for herself. But like a Godiva truffle, she was only hard in a thin outer layer. Her insides were still as tender as ever.

Becky Wade

#12. Faith requires no proof. No evidence. No explanation. Faith is entirely a matter of trust and belief. We cannot know, we can only believe.

Paula Brackston

#13. For, what is home? Surely more than a set of rooms, a roof, an address? Home suggests belonging. Suggests warmth, safety, companionship. Love.

Paula Brackston

#14. To learn, you must be humble. You must be prepared to admit your ignorance. You must allow yourselves to be filled with the vital information presented to you via the skills and dedication of those who have gone before you down the long path to enlightenment.

Paula Brackston

#15. Genius has no limit of sex or race.

Olive Schreiner

#16. She said that the planting of trees, like the education of children, was a gift to the future.

Cassandra Danz

#17. Knowledge is potential power. It transforms itself into actual power the moment you decisively act on it.

Robin Sharma