Quotes from Margaret George

When actions do not square with words, trust the actions. Choose what you see people do, not what you imagine they would like to do.

It is almost impossible to describe happiness,because at the time it feels entirely natural as if all the r est of your life has been the aberration; only in retrospect does it swim into focus as the rare and precious thing it is.

cocked his head. "And who is this?" As if he did not know. "Guess," said Tigellinus. He scrutinized me. "Can it be—is it Apollo himself, come to select a new team of horses to

daughter is a treasure that keeps her father wakeful, and worry over her drives away rest.

Pero cuando los espíritus están agobiados, huyen todos los apetitos.

Poetry consoles me at the same time it inflames me, I said. 'You should know better,' he sniffed. 'It's poison for the soul!

Troy deserves her doom, then!" said Cassandra. "I leave it to you. I shall perish with you! But I see my end, whereas you are blind.

Can we envision our own face? I think not. I think we imagine ourselves invisible, with no face at all, able to blend perfectly with everything around us.

It was late that night before Anne and I met again. She seemed the same as always. Thus do changes of great moment disguise themselves as no change at all.

Ah, but who will bell the cat?" "I am not sure what you mean." "It is a country saying. A council of mice met to decide what to do about the tomcat who was on the loose. They agreed the best plan was to attach a bell to his neck so they could hear him coming and hide. It was a fine plan—but it needed a mouse brave enough to risk his life jumping on the cat.

I know now that to die without tasting this is truly not to have lived. In this, and this only, have we lived: to feel all, to dare all, to try all.

part. I must think of every objection she might

Good manners are the last thing to desert us, so it seems. They remain behind to mock us with their hollow sound when all else has fled.   On

Beheading a Queen had not alarmed the populace as much as appointing one Finance Minister would.

But the gods do not love. And so we

seek for that one person who can love us as we all long to be loved.

Es verdad que, a veces, Dios nos hace promesas que nos ayudan a pasar los tiempos difíciles. Pero parece que no revela Su voluntad a los curiosos, sólo a aquellos que ya sabe que obedecerán. Y a los que obedecen no es necesario revelarles nada. Os puedo prometer una cosa: este viaje es una gran aventura. La vida con Dios nunca es aburrida.

And it is almost impossible to describe happiness because it is the absence of pain, of loneliness, of despair, yet it is infinitely more than just an absence of anything. It resides in small moments, moments that lose their power in the telling but pin themselves fast to our hearts.

Never trust a writer, he had warned me. All the world is ours to kidnap and transform as we will, to our own purpose.

To them it was a pleasurable outing. What is one person's diversion may be another's supreme test. And so often we sit beside one another, unknowing.

Yo sólo juego a ser inconstante —dije por fin—. Por dentro soy una roca. Siempre leal, siempre firme. Pero un poco de juego es la sal de la vida y mantiene a raya a mis enemigos.

Thomas," I said, coming forward to greet him. "How fortuitous that you should come to see me now!

We are always tortured by our memory of the last time we were with anyone, what we said, what we did not say.

To love someone is to catch your breath whenever he walks in the room.