Top 22 Quotes & Sayings by Jocelyn Murray

True kindness ennobles the giver

Hate engenders loneliness and despair

Some trees are too deeply rooted to move ... And if they are uprooted, they will die.

True beauty cannot fail to move the beholder

What good is a smooth tongue without sharp teeth?

What is courage without risk... It wouldn’t really be courage, would it?

Do not bother yourself with what ifs

There is no treasure like the human heart.

There is no place for innocence on the battlefield.

If you are busy pleasing everyone, you are not being true to yourself

It is the dirt within men’s hearts that is most offensive; the filth you cannot see.

What good is a secret if it remains a secret ... Secrets are meant to be discovered.

It is the heart that has been pierced that feels the most.

Sometimes it takes great suffering to pierce the soul and open it up to greatness

Familiarity makes the lion more dangerous.

There is nothing more painful than the untimely death of someone young and dear to the heart. The harrowing grief surges from a bottomless well of sorrow, drowning the mourner in a torrent of agonizing pain; an exquisite pain that continues to afflict the mourner with heartache and loneliness long after the deceased is buried and gone.

When a tree falls it resounds with a thundering crash; and yet a whole forest grows in silence.

Blood was the mortar that cemented the kingdom

Books are like bound dreams waiting to be released

Darkness gives free rein to the mind's worst imaginings.

Some journeys lead nowhere, but they set the spirit free

Even coal shimmers in the light