Amelia Barr

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous. ↗

— Amelia Barr

#always #marvelous #produces #simple

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it. ↗

— Amelia Barr

#bad #bad weather #defy #face #joy

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves. ↗

— Amelia Barr

#changes #leaving #less #melancholy #more

It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem. ↗

— Amelia Barr

#alike #know #little #little men #men

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away. ↗

— Amelia Barr

#empty #far #favors #form #fortune

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much. ↗

— Amelia Barr

#fate #little #love #love is #much

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them. ↗

— Amelia Barr

#difference #great #meet #people #rests

The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful. ↗

— Amelia Barr

#found #hopeful #inevitable #me #ready

But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung. ↗

— Amelia Barr

#love #lover #make #poet #power

But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart? ↗

— Amelia Barr

#know #nearest #our #own