Brownell Landrum Quotes

It's a difficult thing to be a man. To try to be noble and honorable in a world of conflict and strife. To distinguish selfish desire from sincere concern. To know when to fight and when to forfeit. ~ Brownell Landrum

They say a picture tells a thousand words, but photographs reveal only a small part of the real story about a person. ~ Brownell Landrum

I'd always felt like it was only weak people who turned to God, but at that moment I realized maybe I was wrong: perhaps it was the other way around. Only those who were strong enough to admit their own, human limitations would know when to seek help and guidance. ~ Brownell Landrum

In sexual relations, a connection between solar plexus chakras indicates shared power in the relationship. ~ Brownell Landrum

Relationships are tenuous, like a fragile seedling. You could ruin its chances at growing and thriving by carelessly trampling it or shrouding it in a canopy of darkness. And also like a seedling, if you give it light and love and time for the roots to grow deeply, it'll flourish into a majestic redwood. ~ Brownell Landrum

I felt the smile grow from within, starting in my chest and making its way up to my face. If what the guru had said about auras and energy was accurate, I must have been glowing. ~ Brownell Landrum

Despair is a cruel companion. It robs you of everything; especially the choices that still lie within your control. ~ Brownell Landrum

Surprises are everywhere in life. And they usually come from misjudging people for being less than they appear. ~ Brownell Landrum

There's a fine line between trying to be everything your mate wants you to be and wanting to be loved for who you are. ~ Brownell Landrum

Have you ever worried about something so much that it becomes debilitating? But when you finally accept there's nothing you can do, when your choices are taken away, fear dissolves and you can finally relax…and perhaps even enjoy? ~ Brownell Landrum

Love is both the question and the answer. ~ Brownell Landrum

You have to be very careful when involving yourself with someone else's karma. It can quickly become your karma too. ~ Brownell Landrum

A thief might steal from anyone.
Why he's stealing from you is what you need to understand. ~ Brownell Landrum

Looks attract – and disturb – the superficial people. ~ Brownell Landrum

Until someone recognizes his or her Reason Why, the problem will recur, or another will sprout up in its place. ~ Brownell Landrum

It's only when someone really shows their vulnerability to another, and is accepted, flaws and all, can he or she really feel loved. ~ Brownell Landrum

Try making this your new mantra: 'Let Divine Will Fill My Heart and Guide My Actions. ~ Brownell Landrum

Loving someone who can't love themselves is like pouring water into a bowl with a hole in the bottom. It can never stay filled. ~ Brownell Landrum

The opposite of Insecurity isn't Security.
It's a Sense of Adventure. ~ Brownell Landrum

When you strip down the layers and get to your soul, there is nothing that can be taken away.
This is the essence of freedom. ~ Brownell Landrum

A dreamory is a dream that's a memory. ~ Brownell Landrum

All human beings are connected. It's like we're all holding onto ropes that tie to each other. The bond is closer and stronger with people you've met; the longer or better you know someone, the easier it is to tune into their energy. ~ Brownell Landrum

What can be used to heal, can also be used to hurt. ~ Brownell Landrum

Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds. ~ Anna Brownell Jameson

Opinion has ever been stronger than law. ~ Anna Brownell Jameson

Blessed is the memory of those who have kept themselves unspotted from the world. Yet more blessed and more dear the memory of those who have kept themselves unspotted in the world. ~ Anna Brownell Jameson

A king or a prince becomes by accident a part of history. A poet or an artist becomes by nature and necessity a part of universal humanity. ~ Anna Brownell Jameson

Nature is boundless in her powers, exhausting in her variety: the powers of Art and its capabilities of variety in production are bounded on every side. Nature herself, the infinite, has circumscribed the bounds of finite Art. The one is the divinity; the other the priestess. ~ Anna Brownell Jameson

Lavater told Goethe that on a certain occasion when he held the velvet bag in the church as collector of the offerings, he tried to observe only the hands; and he satisfied himself that in every individual the shape of the hand and of the fingers, the action and sentiment in dropping the gift into the bag, were distinctly different and individually characteristic. ~ Anna Brownell Jameson

Conflict, which rouses up the best and highest powers in some characters, in others not only jars the whole being, but paralyzes the faculties. ~ Anna Brownell Jameson

There are no such self-deceivers as those who think they reason when they only feel. ~ Anna Brownell Jameson

A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning. ~ Anna Brownell Jameson

Modesty and chastity are twins ~ Anna Brownell Jameson

As the eye becomes blinded by fashion to positive deformity, so, through social conventionalism, the conscience becomes blinded to positive immorality. ~ Anna Brownell Jameson

Even a member of the state district attorney's office, Keva Landrum-Johnson, had sent a letter urging the federal Department of Justice to become involved. "More likely than not, the court will quash the indictments and the State will be left with no viable option other than to recharge some or all of the defendants on lesser offenses," Landrum-Johnson wrote presciently on August 8, 2008, five days before Judge Bigelow did just that. "Admittedly, my office bears much of the responsibility for the position we are in now." Landrum-Johnson, ~ Ronnie Greene

To some characters, fame is like an intoxicating cup placed to the lips,
they do well to turn away from it who fear it will turn their heads. But to others fame is "love disguised," the love that answers to love in its widest, most exalted sense. ~ Anna Brownell Jameson

Where the vivacity of the intellect and the strength of the passions exceed the development of the moral faculties the character is likely to be embittered or corrupted by extremes, either of adversity or prosperity. ~ Anna Brownell Jameson

As what we call genius arises out of the disproportionate power and size of a certain faculty, so the great difficulty lies in harmonizing with it the rest of the character. ~ Anna Brownell Jameson

In our relations with the people around us, we forgive them more readily for what they do, which they can help, than for what they are, which they cannot help. ~ Anna Brownell Jameson

In every mind where there is a strong tendency to fear there is a strong capacity to hate. Those who dwell in fear dwell nest door to hate; and I think it is the cowardice of women which makes them such intense haters. ~ Anna Brownell Jameson

Never yet were the feelings and instincts of our nature violated with impunity; never yet was the voice of conscience silenced without retribution. ~ Anna Brownell Jameson

As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections. ~ Anna Brownell Jameson

Though we live amid promiscuous pressures, spiritual clutter and forgetfulness, we probably still value the integrity of life. ~ Baker Brownell

You must never believe what the newspapers say. I stand aghast at the impudence of the lies they contain, things not only false in fact, but absolutely impossible. ~ Anna Brownell Jameson

Talk without truth is the hollow brass; talk without love is like the tinkling cymbal, and when it does not tinkle it jingles, and when it does not jingle, it jars. ~ Anna Brownell Jameson

Another Brownell adage that Perkins subscribed to was that the worst reason for publishing anything was that it resembled something else, that however unconscious, "an imitation is always inferior. ~ A. Scott Berg

Violet, the amethyst, signified love and truth; or passion and suffering. ~ Anna Brownell Jameson

Reputation being essentially contemporaneous, is always at the mercy of the Envious and the Ignorant. But Fame, whose very birth is posthumous, and which is only known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds, can neither be increased nor diminished by any degree of wilfulness. ~ Anna Brownell Jameson

Now, it is a good sanitary principle, that what is curative is preventive ... ~ Anna Brownell Jameson

The moment one begins to solder right and wrong together, one's conscience becomes like a piece of plated goods. ~ Anna Brownell Jameson

Occupation was one of the pleasures of paradise, and we cannot be happy without it. ~ Anna Brownell Jameson

Chill penury weighs down the heart itself; and though it sometimes be endured with calmness, it is but the calmness of despair. ~ Anna Brownell Jameson

Avarice is to the intellect what sensuality is to the morals ~ Anna Brownell Jameson

Art arises in those strange complexities of action that are called human beings. It is a kind of human behavior. As such it is not magic, except as human beings are magical. Nor is it concerned in absolutes, eternities, "forms," beyond those that may reside in the context of the human being and be subject to his vicissitudes. Art is not an inner state of consciousness, whatever that may mean. Neither is it essentially a supreme form of communication. Art is human behavior, and its values are contained in human behavior. ~ Baker Brownell

A Canadian settler hates a tree, regards it as his natural enemy, as something to be destroyed, eradicated, annihilated by all and any means. ~ Anna Brownell Jameson

Genius and sunshine have this in common that they are the two most precious gifts of heaven to earth, and are dispensed equally to the just and the unjust. ~ Anna Brownell Jameson

How often we have had cause to regret that the histrionic art, of all the fine arts the most intense in its immediate effect, should be, of all others, the most transient in its result! - and the only memorials it can leave behind, at best, so imperfect and so unsatisfactory! ~ Anna Brownell Jameson

Thoughts and emotions which never perhaps were in the mind of the artist, never were anticipated, never were intended by him - may be strongly suggested by his work. This is an important part of the morals of art, which we must never lose sight of. Art is not only for pleasure and profit, but for good and for evil. ~ Anna Brownell Jameson

A bond is necessary to complete our being, only we must be careful that the bond does not become bondage. ~ Anna Brownell Jameson

The streams which would otherwise diverge to fertilize a thousand meadows, must be directed into one deep narrow channel before they can turn a mill. ~ Anna Brownell Jameson

The primitve Christians, by laying so much stress upon a future life in contradiction to this life, and placing the lower creatures out of the pale of sympathy, and thus had the foundation for this utter disregard of animals in the light of our fellow creatures. ~ Anna Brownell Jameson

There are brains so large that they unconsciously swamp all individualities ties which come in contact or too near, and brains so small that they cannot take in the conception of any other individuality as a whole, only in part or parts. ~ Anna Brownell Jameson

Of how many women might the history be comprised in those few words - 'she lived, suffered, and was buried'! ~ Anna Brownell Jameson

I have great admiration for power, a great terror of weakness, especially in my own sex, yet feel that my love is for those who overcome the mental and moral suffering and temptation through excess of tenderness rather than through excess of strength. ~ Anna Brownell Jameson

Human life commences at the time of conception. ~ Landrum Shettles

I have much more confidence in the charity which begins in the home and diverges into a large humanity, than in the world-wide philanthropy which begins at the outside of our horizon to converge into egotism. ~ Anna Brownell Jameson

Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love. ~ Anna Brownell Jameson