Quotes from Katharine Butler Hathaway

If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.

If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.

A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.

If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.

I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.

It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.

I call it the indescribable charm of life. It was a feeling of ecstasy that was almost distress when it came, because it came so bound up and clogged by our own stupid feeling- the stupid ache of never being able to equal it or match it with anything like itself when it came.

Mother is the one we count on for all the things that matter most of all.

If you let the fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.

All well-brought-up people are afraid of having any experience which seems to them uncharacteristic of themselves as they imagine themselves to be.

Reality is unbelievably terrifying after one has done nothing but dream.

The most beautiful thing is inevitability of events, and the most ugly thing is trying to resist inevitability.

A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.

A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influence, to change.

I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.

All I can do is act according to my deepest instinct, and be whatever I must be-crazy or ribald or sad or compassionate or loving or indifferent. That is all anybody can do.

It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life.

If you let fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct then your life will be safe expedient and thin.

The support of one's personality is friends. A part of one's self and a real foundation and existence.