Chasten Quotes

#1. If you are ever called upon to chasten a person, never chasten beyond the balm you have within you to bind up.

Brigham Young

#2. Regrets over the past should chasten the future.

James Ellis

#3. He (God) may sometimes chasten us, it is true, but even this He does with a smile, the proud, tender smile of a Father who is bursting with pleasure over an imperfect but promising son who is coming every day to look more and more like the One whose child he is.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#4. Confidence, of course is an admirable asset to a golfer, but it should be an unspoken confidence. It is perilous to put it into speech. The gods of golf lie in wait to chasten the presumptious.

P.G. Wodehouse

#5. Even the good can become careless without the Lord's being there to chasten.

Neal A. Maxwell

#6. The same disappointments in life will chasten and refine one man's spirit, embitter another's.

William Matthews

#7. Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

William Wordsworth

#8. Just as I came out into the rue, an omnibus came by - pas complet, so I sprang in, without that prayer and fasting which should chasten the mind before risking it in a French omnibus.

Susan Hale

#9. If you don't deal with the past, the past deals with you.

Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson

#10. Don't you get it?" he asked. "Every time you try to protect me, you end up breaking my heart.

Katie Alender

#11. I took notes on the people around me, in my town, in my family, in my memory. I took notes on my own state of mind, my grandiosity, the low self-esteem. I wrote down the funny stuff I overheard. I learned to be like a ship's rat, veined ears trembling, and I learned to scribble it all down.

Anne Lamott

#12. He was happier with Sabina the invisible goddess than the Sabina who had accompanied him throughout the world and whose love he constantly feared losing.

Milan Kundera

#13. It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

Augustine Of Hippo

#14. I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.

E. M. Forster

#15. The Master stays behind; that is why she is ahead. She is detached from all things; that is why she is one with them. Because she has let go of herself, she is perfectly fulfilled.

Lao-Tzu

#16. The act of vagabonding is not an isolated trend so much as it is a spectral connection between people long separated by place and time, but somehow speaking the same language.

Rolf Potts

#17. You must find a boy your own age. Someone mild and beautiful to be your lover. Someone who will tremble for your touch, offer you a marguerite by its long stem with his eyes lowered. Someone whose fingers are a poem.

Janet Fitch