The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor. Willa Cather More Quotes by Willa Cather More Quotes From Willa Cather Success is never so interesting as struggle Willa Cather giving-up struggle success There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. Willa Cather nature summer inspirational When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless. Willa Cather kindness inspirational people Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky. Willa Cather earth sky world Miracles surround us at every turn if we but sharpen our perceptions of them. Willa Cather turns miracle perception One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and hold fast to the days. Willa Cather lucky happiness world It takes a great deal of experience to become natural. Willa Cather deals natural Some things are best learned in calm, others in storm. Willa Cather calm storm The soul cannot be humbled by fasts and prayer; it must be broken by mortal sin to experience forgiveness of sin and rise to a state of grace. Otherwise, religion is nothing but dead logic. Willa Cather broken grace prayer The end is nothing; the road is all. Willa Cather ends life That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. Willa Cather purpose spiritual happiness There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before. Willa Cather niece wise life The only thing very noticeable about Nebraska was that it was still, all day long, Nebraska. Willa Cather nebraska states long Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things. Willa Cather faster knows men The idea of you is a part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times when I don't realize it. You really are a part of me. In the course of twenty crowded years one parts with many illusions... I did not wish to lose the early ones. Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen again. Willa Cather memories reality years Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand - a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods - or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values. Willa Cather breakfast-food writing art The test of one's decency is how much of a fight one can put up after one has stopped caring, and after one has found out that one can never please the people they wanted to please. Willa Cather fighting caring writing Even the wicked get worse than they deserve. Willa Cather punishment wicked fate The land belongs to the future. Willa Cather land There seemed to be nothing to see; no fences, no creeks or trees, no hills or fields. If there was a road, I could not make it out in the faint starlight. There was nothing but land: not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made. Willa Cather stars land country
