Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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Of all the ills that circumstance forces upon man, separation from a beloved object is, perhaps, the most salutary. Separation is the crucible wherein love undergoes the test absolute; in the fire of loss, grief softens to indifference or hardens to enduring need.

Katherine Cecil Thurston's Popular Quotes

Failure may be cruel, but success is crueller still. The gods are usurers, you know; they lend to mortals, but they exact a desperate interest.

- Katherine Cecil Thurston

Cynicism ... is the trade-mark of failure.

- Katherine Cecil Thurston

To give! To give without hope of recompense, without question, without fear! That was the message of life.

- Katherine Cecil Thurston

in this curious world there are certain beings to whom it is given to say of all things with naïve faith, not 'I shall seek,' but 'I shall find.

- Katherine Cecil Thurston

We have all of us the two natures - the brother and the sister! Not one of us is quite woman - not one of us is all man!

- Katherine Cecil Thurston

The saddest human experience is to view alone the scenes one has viewed through other eyes - to walk solitary where one has walked in company - to ha…

- Katherine Cecil Thurston

Nobody is such an individualist as the man who advocates equality.

- Katherine Cecil Thurston

No weapons are more potent than brevity and simplicity.

- Katherine Cecil Thurston

Journeys end in lovers' meeting.' ... But the real journey - the journey of adventure itself - is frequently another matter: often gray, often loverl…

- Katherine Cecil Thurston