Elna Baker quotes

“When you wish for something over and over again and it doesn't come true, something else happens; not only do you give up, but you resent your wish and you resent wishing.”
-- Elna Baker

Source : Elna Baker (2009). “The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance: A Memoir”, p.62, Penguin

#Giving Up Quotes #Giving Quotes #Wish Quotes

“The thing with restaurant talk is you’re not supposed to take it to heart.”
-- Elna Baker

Source : Elna Baker (2009). “The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance: A Memoir”, p.162, Penguin

#Heart Quotes #Restaurants Quotes

“I think most religious people experience just as much doubt as they do faith; they just don’t admit it. (13)”
-- Elna Baker

Source : Elna Baker (2009). “The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance”, E P Dutton

#Religious Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“It's okay to doubt yourself, it's okay to feel down; just never give up.”

“We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.”

“To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.”

Source : Agnes Martin (2005). “Schriften”, Cantz

“A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.”

“An eternity of wishing to speak directly to my Creator - I thought in despair - and this is how He finally contacts me? Through AOL Instant Messenger?”

“Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.”

Source : Abbie Hoffman (1968). “Revolution for the hell of it”

“I wish to fill in the gaps which have so far always remained unanswered in the souls of men as burning questions, and which never leave any serious thinker in peace, if he honestly seeks the Truth.”

“There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.”

“I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays.”

“Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.