The most splendid moment of an adventure is not always the moment of fulfilment, not even the moment of conception, but the moment of first accomplishment, when the adventurer deliberately sets his face toward the new road, knowing that his… — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share Image
Journeys end in lovers' meeting.' ... But the real journey - the journey of adventure itself - is frequently another matter: often gray, often loverless, often demanding from the secret soul of the adventurer spirit and inspiration, lest the blood… — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share Image
We have all of us the two natures - the brother and the sister! Not one of us is quite woman - not one… — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share
No first step can be really great; it must of necessity possess more of prophecy than of achievement; nevertheless it is by the first… — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share
An eight-mile drive over rain-washed Irish roads in the quick-falling dusk of autumn is an experience trying to the patience, even to the temper,… — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share
Enthusiasm is ever a gracious, pardonable thing, because in its essentials are youth and zeal and all high, white-hot qualities whose roots strike not… — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share
We Irish are born dreamers; sometimes we never wake up at all, and then we're counted failures. — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share
Nobody is such an individualist as the man who advocates equality. — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share
The most splendid moment of an adventure is not always the moment of fulfilment, not even the moment of conception, but the moment of… — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share
Light love is desire of pleasure; great love is fear of being alone. — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share
The saddest human experience is to view alone the scenes one has viewed through other eyes - to walk solitary where one has walked… — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share
To give! To give without hope of recompense, without question, without fear! That was the message of life. — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share
Of all the ills that circumstance forces upon man, separation from a beloved object is, perhaps, the most salutary. Separation is the crucible wherein… — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share
