A grand passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do.
—Muriel Strode
Say not that this or that thing came to thwart you; it only came to test you.
—Muriel Strode
Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.
—Muriel Strode
Each receives but that which is his own returning.
Each hears but that which is the echo of his own call.
Each feels but that which has eaten into his own heart.
—Muriel Strode
If the populace marched in file, ’twere my signal to break from the ranks. If a thousand generations did thus and so, ’twere my cue to do otherwise.
—Muriel Strode
It is no stigma to wear rags; the disgrace is in continuing to wear them.
—Muriel Strode
A man is known by the company he avoids.
—Muriel Strode
Topics: Friends and Friendship
The Aeolian must be in your breast, else the winds are in vain.
—Muriel Strode
I would travel in all climes that I might return and tell you of the beauty of my own little garden plot. I would explore heaven and hell that I might come back and tell you what a charming place is the earth.
—Muriel Strode
Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment.
—Muriel Strode
A coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave just one.
—Muriel Strode
Infinitely will I trust nature’s instincts and prompting:-, but I will not call my own perversions nature.
—Muriel Strode
I longed to build as you had builded, but I knew that your joy lay in the conception of your own design.
I longed to follow where your feet had trod, but I had watched your exhilaration as you felled a new way.
I longed to do that thing you did and be that thing you are, but I knew life’s fulness was yours because you were yourself.
—Muriel Strode
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
—Muriel Strode
Topics: Worry
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, “I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, angry, violent one. The other wolf is the loving, compassionate one. The grandson asked him, “Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?” The grandfather answered, “The one I feed”.
—Muriel Strode
Topics: Pessimism
There is hope for that genius who must overcome poverty, but there is almost none for that one who must overcome wealth.
—Muriel Strode
Let my grave be unmarked: I fear not to be forgotten.
—Muriel Strode
I am life’s mystery,—and I alone am its solution.
I am the dreamer of dreams,—and I am dreams come true.
I am the supplicant,—and I am the god that answers prayers.
—Muriel Strode
Not alone for that which is mine will I rejoice, but for that which has been withheld, which was coveted and longed for but denied, for I am what I am for having bad to rise superior to the need.
—Muriel Strode
It is better to live richly than to die rich.
—Muriel Strode
The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.
—Muriel Strode
I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail.
—Muriel Strode
Topics: Prophecy, Leadership, Travel, How to Live, Originality, Individuality, Journeys, Courage, Vision
A closed mind is a good thing to lose.
—Muriel Strode
I am glad the thorn is on my brow, that the blood trickles over my face: when I see my brother’s wounds, I will also feel his pain. I am glad I fell today beneath my cross: when I see another prostrate, I will know the weight of the burden. I am glad I cried for succor: I will know the sound of a heart-cry. I am glad I suffered alone, deserted: I will know the bitterness or desolation.
—Muriel Strode
A great work demands a great sacrifice, and who is not capable of a great sacrifice is not capable of a great work.
—Muriel Strode
I do not bemoan misfortune. To me there is no misfortune. I welcome whatever comes; I go out gladly to meet it.
—Muriel Strode
Wishing will bring things in the degree that it incites you to go after them.
—Muriel Strode
The earth shall yet surrender to him, and the fates shall do his will, who marches on, though the promised land proved to be but a mirage and the day of deliverance was cancelled. The gods shall yet anoint him, and the morning stars shall sing.
—Muriel Strode
No man deserves punishment for his thoughts.
—Muriel Strode
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
—Muriel Strode
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