Radclyffe Hall Quotes

Not only do you become what you think about, but the world also becomes what you think about. Those who think that the world is a dark place are blind to the light that might illuminate their lives. Those who see the light of the world view the dark spots as merely potential light.

My only wish is that we leave room for hope. There is good and bad in all things. We find what we expect to find. We see what we expect to see. I have learned that if I tilt my head just right and squint, the world outside is beautiful. The future is bright. There are good things to come.

It's only a wonderful world if you can make it that way. There are no street signs pointing to Paradise Road.

It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience, and makes the world he lives in.

There are many levels of truth.

Reality seems so simple. We just open our eyes and there it is. But that doesn't mean it is simple.

What you see is what you see.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

I guess I found it useful to realise that everything is true at once, you know? You can pull back and say, 'Everything will be fine,' but you can also be in a situation and say, 'Not everything is going to be fine.'

I don't make things complicated, that's the way they get all by themselves.

What we need most, is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real.

Reality isn't straightforward or easily accessible.

The world is a more engaging and less dramatic place than writers ever give it credit for being

... we ought even to hold as a fixed principle that what I see white I believe to be black, if the superior authorities define it to be so.

Everything really is beautiful if you choose to see it that way.

The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy.

...everything looks worse in black and white.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Find good in what the world says is evil.

Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know.

The truths that seem most truthful, if you look at them from all sides, if you look at them close up, turn out to be either half truths or lies.

While it may be difficult to change the world, it is always possible to change the way we look at it.

Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments.

Boy, it's a tough planet if you want it to be. But a great planet if you let it.

I've always been very hopeful which I guess isn't strange coming from me. I don't want to call myself an optimist. I want to say that I've always been full of hope. I've never lost that. I have a lot of hope for this country and for the entire world. . .