Top 100 Jeffers's Quotes
#1. Well: the day is a poem but too much Like one of Jeffers's, crusted with blood and barbaric omens Painful to excess, inhuman as a hawk's cry.
Robinson Jeffers
#2. We can't control the world, but we can control our reactions to it.
Susan Jeffers
#4. IF YOU KNEW YOU COULD HANDLE ANYTHING THAT CAME YOUR WAY, WHAT WOULD YOU POSSIBLY HAVE TO FEAR? The answer is: NOTHING!
Susan Jeffers
#5. Meteors are not needed less than mountains:
shine, perishing republic.
Robinson Jeffers
#6. In pleasant peace and security
How suddenly the soul in a man begins to die
He shall look up above the stalled oxen
Envying the cruel falcon,
And dig under the straw for a stone
To bruise himself on.
Robinson Jeffers
#8. We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic
Susan Jeffers
#9. You are the type of female who grows more lovely, not by false paints or creams, but by being a complete woman, a woman who knows intelligence, sympathy, forgiveness, generosity, and love of family. I cannot imagine a more perfect combination.
Regina Jeffers
#10. You can't avoid pain, but you can say yes to the pain, understanding that it is a part of life.
Susan Jeffers
#11. You're not a failure if you don't make it. You're a success because you tried.
Susan Jeffers
#12. A ship in harbour is safe, but it's not fulfilling its potential
Susan Jeffers
#13. No matter what response you get from anyone you meet, You are a worthwhile person.
Susan Jeffers
#14. In truth, nothing was the same. She forgot about the stars ... and taking notice of the sea. She was no longer filled with all the curiosities of the world and didn't take much notice of anything ... other than how heavy ... and awkward the bottle had become.
Oliver Jeffers
#15. As for me, I would rather be a worm in a wild apple than a son of man. But we are what we are, and we might remember not to hate any person, for all are vicious; And not to be astonished at any evil, all are deserved; And not to fear death; it is the only way to be cleansed.
Robinson Jeffers
#16. I said to myself: 'You mean all those people out there that I've been envying because they're not afraid to move ahead with their lives have really been afraid? Why didn't somebody tell me!?' I guess I never asked.
Susan Jeffers
#17. Remember that underlying all our fears is a lack of trust in ourselves.
Susan Jeffers
#18. Everyone in your life is a 'practise person.' How you react to them allows you to see what you have to work on within yourself.
Susan Jeffers
#20. If the sign on your heart says "WELCOME", the love will come pouring in from everywhere.
Susan Jeffers
#21. Aging allows us to drop the baggage. It is only through life experiences that our incredible power can be brought forward in all its glory.
Susan Jeffers
#22. THE KNOWLEDGE THAT YOU CAN HANDLE ANYTHING THAT COMES YOUR WAY IS THE KEY TO ALLOWING YOURSELF TO TAKE HEALTHY, LIFE-AFFIRMING RISKS.
Susan Jeffers
#23. Whatever the method, the purpose of quieting the mind is always the same ... to step out of you own way and touch a Universal Oneness with all things.
Susan Jeffers
#25. We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures.
Susan Jeffers
#26. I listen to every thing, all kinds of stuff. I've been obsessed with the Nas and Damian Marley record, 'Distant Relatives.' I feel like a lot of people haven't heard it, and it's amazing.
Eve Jihan Jeffers
#27. Usually inner strength is respected - we get back what we put out.
Susan Jeffers
#29. It is a paradox. The less you need someone's approval, the more you are able to love them.
Susan Jeffers
#30. There's a thin line between destruction and creation.
Oliver Jeffers
#31. Security is not having things; it's handling things.
Susan Jeffers
#32. The world's in a bad way, my man, And bound to be worse before it mends; Better lie up in the mountain here Four or five centuries, While the stars go over the lonely ocean.
Robinson Jeffers
#33. One existence, one music, one organism, one life, one God: star-fire and rock-strength, the sea's cold flow
And man's dark soul.
Robinson Jeffers
#34. We are not going to succeed in everything we attempt in life. That's a guarantee. In fact, the more we do in life, the more chance there is not to succeed in some things. But what a rich life we are having! Win or lose, we just keep winning.
Susan Jeffers
#35. If love was Jesus's greatest commandment, why dont more christians do so? This is the greatest sin, if Jesus in fact gave us one and only commandment and we dont follow! GIVE YOUR LIFE FOR SOMEONE ELSE, LIKE I DID FOR YOU!!! THAT IS CHRISTIANITY, SERVE THE POOR ...
Haggai Jeffers
#36. Know that however ugly the parts appear
the whole remains beautiful ...
... the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty
of the universe. Love that, not man
Apart from that, or else you will share man's pitiful confusions,
or drown in despair when his days darken.
Robinson Jeffers
#37. The tides are in our veins, we still mirror the stars, life is your child, but there is in me
Older and harder than life and more impartial, the eye that watched before there was an ocean.
Robinson Jeffers
#38. I keep writing children's books, I keep making children's books, because I still have them inside of me.
Oliver Jeffers
#39. Say YES to life. Participate. Move. Act. Write. Read. Sign up. Take a stand. Or do whatever it takes for you. Get involved in the process.
Susan Jeffers
#42. Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts.
Robinson Jeffers
#43. We have to live like people in a web of knives, we mustn't reach out our hands or we get them gashed.
Robinson Jeffers
#44. People who refuse to take risks live with a feeling of dread that is far more severe than what they would feel if they took the risks necessary to make them less helpless - only they don't know it!
Susan Jeffers
#45. Assembled in Gaza from Brazilian bioplastics, Turkish and Indonesian electronics, running Egyptian software and catching its time cues from an Israeli satellite, it commented on the world in ways its producers had failed to consider.
Come to salvation!
Alex Jeffers
#46. The source of our love comes from within. No one out there is that source. It makes sense to go to the source.
Susan Jeffers
#47. Even this cold, this fearful, your mind wanders. You've lost a mile not knowing you were walking.
Ian Mackenzie Jeffers
#48. A little too abstract, a little too wise,
It is time for us to kiss the earth again,
It is time to let the leaves rain from the skies,
Let the rich life run to the roots again.
Robinson Jeffers
#49. Our goal is to enjoy, not to achieve perfection
Susan Jeffers
#50. Science and mathematics Run parallel to reality, they symbolize it, they squint at it, They never touch it: consider what an explosion Would rock the bones of men into little white fragments and unsky the world If any mind for a moment touch truth.
Robinson Jeffers
#51. The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.
Robinson Jeffers
#52. I've changed my ways a little, I cannot now
Run with you in the evenings along the shore,
Except in a kind of dream, and you, if you dream a moment,
You see me there.
Robinson Jeffers
#53. Trust your feelings. If the path you're on isn't providing you joy, satisfaction, creativity, love, and caring, that's not it.
Susan Jeffers
#54. To the end of this age. Oh, a thousand years
Will Hardly leach," he thought, "this dust of that fire.
Robinson Jeffers
#55. Success is ... living a full and balanced life in partnership with others to create a joyful feeling of love, contribution, appreciation and abundance, despite how our endeavors may turn out.
Susan Jeffers
#56. Death's a fierce meadowlark: but to die having made / Something more equal to the centuries / Than muscle and bone, is mostly to shed weakness.
Robinson Jeffers
#57. Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market; or the precipice.
Robinson Jeffers
#58. ... things such as losing a job, the death of a loved one, divorce, bankruptcy, illness. Once you have handled any of those things, you emerge a much stronger person.
Susan Jeffers
#59. TRUTH 1 THE FEAR WILL NEVER GO AWAY AS LONG AS I CONTINUE TO GROW. As
Susan Jeffers
#61. I pulled a book by Robinson Jeffers off the shelf one day. It was powerfully moving. Tears ran down my face. That's when I became a poet.
William Everson
#63. The truth is: If you knew you could handle anything that came your way, what would you have to fear. The answer is: NOTHING!
Susan Jeffers
#64. As we open our hearts to others, we begin to discover the truth of our own inner beauty, inner strength and inner light.
Susan Jeffers
#65. He is strong and pain is worse to the strong, incapacity is worse.
Robinson Jeffers
#66. Shift from being afraid of making a mistake to being afraid of not making a mistake. If you are not making any mistakes, you are not learning or growing
Susan Jeffers
#67. There's nothing as powerful as a made-up mind!
Susan Jeffers
#68. Rejection never feels good, but it certainly hurts less when we are not needing something from the person who is rejecting us.
Susan Jeffers
#69. The only time you will fear anything is when you say no and resist the universe. You may have heard the expression "Go with the flow." This means consciously accepting what is happening in your life.
Susan Jeffers
#70. For many of us, the people we find most difficult to praise are the ones closest to us - our mates, our children, our parents, and sometimes our friends.
Susan Jeffers
#71. Humanity is the start of the race; I say Humanity is the mould to break away from, the crust to break through, the coal to break into fire, The atom to be split.
Robinson Jeffers
#72. O that our souls could scale a height like this, A mighty mountain swept o'er by the bleak Keen winds of heaven; and, standing on that peak Above the blinding clouds of prejudice, Would we could see all truly as it is; The calm eternal truth would keep us meek.
Robinson Jeffers
#73. I am a writer: to the core of my being, the marrow of my bones ... to the depth of my very soul. I am a writer.
Valjeanne Jeffers
#74. I'm interested in how we define things by how we choose to observe them, and how everywhere in our lives, and in every moment we experience, there are forces at work that we don't fully understand. Couple this curiosity with a love of portraiture painting, and that's how this project was born.
Oliver Jeffers
#75. Truly men hate the truth; they'd liefer meet a tiger on the road.
Robinson Jeffers
#76. Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.
Robinson Jeffers
#77. I learned that ruling poor men's hands is nothing. Ruling men's money's a wedge in the world. But after I'd split it open a crack I looked in and saw the trick inside it, the filthy nothing, the fooled and rotten faces of rich and successful men.
Robinson Jeffers
#78. Any time you hear a politician say that something has to be done, you should immediately grab your musket and your wallet, in that order if not simultaneously.
David Jeffers
#79. Everything wants to be remembered, chronicled, documented: everything - all of this and all the rest, because your life is neither a finite length that can be measured out to a certain point and served, nor is it only your own.
Alex Jeffers
#80. Each time we confront some intense difficulty, we know there is something we haven't learned yet, and the universe is now giving us the opportunity to learn.
Susan Jeffers
#81. I hate my verses, every line, every word. Oh pale and brittle pencils ever to try One grass-blade's curve, or the throat of one bird That clings to twig, ruffled against white sky. Oh cracked and twilight mirrors ever to catch One color, one glinting flash, of the splendor of things.
Robinson Jeffers
#82. The wall that protects you, also imprisons you.
Susan Jeffers
#83. One step at a time is enough for me. Impatience is simply a way of beating yourself up. (from Kammy haynes)
Susan Jeffers
#84. By learning to trust your intuition, miracles seem to happen. Intuitive thoughts are gifts from the higher self.
Susan Jeffers
#86. So commit! Commit yourself to pushing through the fear and becoming more than you are at the present moment. The you that could be is absolutely colossal.
Susan Jeffers
#87. The paintings each take several months to do and it's quite a cathartic and intense experience that's very pleasurable, but also very strange.
Oliver Jeffers
#88. You have to do something to make your real life match your visualization.
Susan Jeffers
#89. I make figurative portraits as a way to explore theories of quantum physics.
Oliver Jeffers
#90. As I began to do things on my own, I began to taste the deliciousness of an emerging self-confidence.
Susan Jeffers
#91. I am powerful and I am loving.
I have much to give to this world.
I am a person of worth.
I deserve love.
I am a capable person.
My life has meaning.
My life is unfolding perfectly.
There is plenty of time.
Susan Jeffers
#92. God is a lion that comes in the night. God is a hawk gliding among the stars
If all the stars and the earth, and the living flesh of the night that flows in between them, and whatever is beyond them Were that one bird. He has a bloody beak and harsh talons, he pounces and tears.
Robinson Jeffers
#93. There is no reason for amazement: surely one always knew that cultures decay, and life's end is death.
Robinson Jeffers
#94. Remove those 'I want you to like me' stickers from your forehead and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good -on your mirror!
Susan Jeffers
#95. Perhaps we desire death / or why is poison so sweet? / why do little Sirens make kindlier music / for a man caught in the net of the world between news-cast & work-desk?
Robinson Jeffers
#96. I did not let people tell me what to do, and I never wanted to be a groupie.
Eve Jihan Jeffers
#97. THE ONLY WAY TO GET RID OF THE FEAR OF DOING SOMETHING IS TO GO OUT AND DO IT.
Susan Jeffers
#98. Don't be deceived into thinking that by changing the external, the internal will be changed. It works the other way around; the path that needs changing is the one in your mind.
Susan Jeffers
#99. Oh heavy change. The world deteriorates like a rotting apple, worms and a skin.
Robinson Jeffers
#100. When you operate from the Higher Self, you feel centered and abundant?in fact, overflowing. When you experience this abundance, your fears automatically disappear.
Susan Jeffers
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