5+ Randolph Silliman Bourne Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best Randolph Silliman Bourne quotes and sayings.

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience. — Randolph Silliman Bourne

Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing. — Randolph Silliman Bourne

No matter what we have come through, or how many perils we have safely passed, or how many imperfect and jagged - in some places perhaps irreparably - our life has been, we cannot in our heart of hearts imagine how it could have been different. As we look back on it, it slips in behind us in orderly array, and, with all its mistakes, acquires a sort of eternal fitness, and even, at times, of poetic glamour. — Randolph Silliman Bourne

We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as to make it impregnible, we may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life that we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living. — Randolph Silliman Bourne

Self-recognition is necessary to know one's road, but, knowing the road, the price of the mistakes and perils is worth paying. The following of that road will be all the discipline one needs. Discipline does not mean being molded by outside forces, but sticking to one's road against the forces that would deflect or bury the soul. People speak of finding one — Randolph Silliman Bourne