The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
—Muriel Strode
Topics: Worry
A man is known by the company he avoids.
—Muriel Strode
Topics: Friends and Friendship
Better than tiaras—the diadem of freedom.
Better than broad acres—a garden of heartsease.
Better than mines of gold—a mint of dreams.
Better than bars of molten silver—the silver of a laugh.
Better than strings of pearls—the crystal of a tear.
Better than bands of choristers—a lute in the soul.
—Muriel Strode
A closed mind is a good thing to lose.
—Muriel Strode
If you chase two rabbits, both will escape.
—Muriel Strode
Topics: Focus
Not alone for that which is mine will I rejoice, but for that which has been withheld, which was coveted and longed for but denied, for I am what I am for having bad to rise superior to the need.
—Muriel Strode
I would travel in all climes that I might return and tell you of the beauty of my own little garden plot. I would explore heaven and hell that I might come back and tell you what a charming place is the earth.
—Muriel Strode
Infinitely will I trust nature’s instincts and prompting:-, but I will not call my own perversions nature.
—Muriel Strode
I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail.
—Muriel Strode
Topics: Prophecy, Vision, How to Live, Travel, Courage, Individuality, Originality, Leadership, Journeys
There is hope for that genius who must overcome poverty, but there is almost none for that one who must overcome wealth.
—Muriel Strode
I longed to build as you had builded, but I knew that your joy lay in the conception of your own design.
I longed to follow where your feet had trod, but I had watched your exhilaration as you felled a new way.
I longed to do that thing you did and be that thing you are, but I knew life’s fulness was yours because you were yourself.
—Muriel Strode
A coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave just one.
—Muriel Strode
His to rejoice with exceeding great joy who plucks the fruit of his planting, but his the divine anointing who watched and waited and toiled and prayed—and failed,—and can yet be glad.
—Muriel Strode
I do not bemoan misfortune. To me there is no misfortune. I welcome whatever comes; I go out gladly to meet it.
—Muriel Strode
It is better to live richly than to die rich.
—Muriel Strode
If the populace marched in file, ’twere my signal to break from the ranks. If a thousand generations did thus and so, ’twere my cue to do otherwise.
—Muriel Strode
I am life’s mystery,—and I alone am its solution.
I am the dreamer of dreams,—and I am dreams come true.
I am the supplicant,—and I am the god that answers prayers.
—Muriel Strode
Say not that this or that thing came to thwart you; it only came to test you.
—Muriel Strode
A great work demands a great sacrifice, and who is not capable of a great sacrifice is not capable of a great work.
—Muriel Strode
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
—Muriel Strode
Wishing will bring things in the degree that it incites you to go after them.
—Muriel Strode
The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.
—Muriel Strode
A grand passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do.
—Muriel Strode
No man deserves punishment for his thoughts.
—Muriel Strode
The Aeolian must be in your breast, else the winds are in vain.
—Muriel Strode
Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment.
—Muriel Strode
Let my grave be unmarked: I fear not to be forgotten.
—Muriel Strode
Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.
—Muriel Strode
One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
—Muriel Strode
The earth shall yet surrender to him, and the fates shall do his will, who marches on, though the promised land proved to be but a mirage and the day of deliverance was cancelled. The gods shall yet anoint him, and the morning stars shall sing.
—Muriel Strode
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