Henry James

“It's time to start living the life you've imagined.”
-- Henry James

#Inspirational #Positive #Dream

“Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.”
-- Henry James

#Inspirational #Life #Friendship

“Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.”
-- Henry James

#Friendship #Relationship #Judging

“Never say you know the last word about any human heart.”
-- Henry James

#Heart #Lasts #Last Words

“And remember this, that if you've been hated, you've also been loved.”
-- Henry James

#Love #Remember #Hated

“We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.”
-- Henry James

#Inspirational #Life #Art

“He was there or was not there: not there if I didn't see him.”
-- Henry James

“Sorrow comes in great waves...but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us. And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.”
-- Henry James

#Strong #Hard Times #Sorrow

“She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.”
-- Henry James

#Elbows #Tables

“Ideas are, in truth, force.”
-- Henry James

#Learning #Ideas #Force

“It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.”
-- Henry James

#Art #Consideration #Force

“If this was love, love had been overrated.”
-- Henry James

#Overrated

“To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.”
-- Henry James

#Inspirational #Life #Time

“In art economy is always beauty.”
-- Henry James

#Art #Crafts #Economy

“Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.”
-- Henry James

#Travel #Venice #Visitors

“It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games”
-- Henry James

#Winning #Games #Play

“True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.”
-- Henry James

#Happiness #Self #Inner Peace

“Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!”
-- Henry James

#People #Trying #Lost

“Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.”
-- Henry James

#Delicate #Pursue #Prize

“Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.”
-- Henry James

#I Hate You #Doors #Imagination

“Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.”
-- Henry James

#Food #Sprinkles #Garbage

“The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.”
-- Henry James

#Book #Beer #Winning

“People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.”
-- Henry James

#Nice #People #Leave Me Alone

“One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.”
-- Henry James

#Country #Civilization #Texture

“However British you may be, I am more British still.”
-- Henry James

#May #British #Stills

“Life is a predicament which precedes death.”
-- Henry James

#Life #Judging #Inspire

“Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.”
-- Henry James

#Character #Ideas #Two

“The deepest quality of a work of art will always be the quality of the mind of the producer...No good novel will ever proceed from a superficial mind.”
-- Henry James

#Art #Writing #Mind

“I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.”
-- Henry James

#Home #Thinking #Patriotism

“I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.”
-- Henry James

#Literature #Adore #Adverbs