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The only real danger to our country is from within, that we forget our own power to be what we want to be.
The greatest problem that war leaves, in a man, is how to recapture reality. That's because war is unreal.
destructiveness comes only when life isn't lived. People who can live their lives don't destroy themselves.
Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.
If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born myself...a human being.
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful.
The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.
the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.
At heart a truly modest man, he had nevertheless the modest man's pride in his modesty in the face of achievement.
I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.
What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.
You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with adventurers.
Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.
you seem to grieve for what is not so ... and there is no need to let your heart run ahead into evils that may never come.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.
For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom.
Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.
Once the 'what' is decided, the 'how' always follows. We must not make the 'how' an excuse for not facing and accepting the 'what.'
God is not in the vastness of greatness. He is hid in the vastness of smallness . He is not in the general. He is in the particular.
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.
Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels.
I learned to distinguish between the two kinds of people in the world: those who have known inescapable sorrow and those who have not.
From that house there has come so much life that it ought never to die or fall into ruin... For me that house was a gateway to America.
We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage and indeed perhaps more.
Euthanasia is a long, smooth-sounding word, and it conceals its danger as long, smooth words do, but the danger is there, nevertheless.
nature knows no sex limitations and does not bestow brains upon men alone. Daughters inherit gifts exactly as often and as much as sons.
Write a novel if you must, but think of money as an unlikely accident. Get your reward out of writing it, and try to be content with that.
It is better to learn early of the inevitable depths, for then sorrow and death can take their proper place in life, and one is not afraid.
In this unbelievable universe in which we live, there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder.
If I have learned anything in my long life it is to be grateful for every occasion when I followed my sympathies and avoided my antipathies.
It certainly must have been a relief for women of the country to realize that one could be a woman and a lady and yet be thoroughly political.
Only people who are assured of daily food can concern themselves with matters of principle and ethic. A man will become a slave rather than starve.
to know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a gate to the universe." from Pavilion of Women page 292
An Englishman is never afraid of being laughed at. He just thinks the other fellow is a fool. But Americans still can't risk anybody laughing at them.
If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of writing.
People don't care to read what they already think or what any people think - they know all that well enough. They want to know what they ought to think.
In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.
The best government in the world, the best religion, the best traditions of any people, depend upon the good or evil of the men and women who administer them.
doing and being are very closely tied together, and unless you are doing what you secretly want to do, you aren't able to be the sort of person you want to be.
But what happens when her beauty is torn from her like a cover from a book? Will he care to read her then, although her pages speak of nothing but love for him?
She had always been too wise to tell him all she thought and felt, knowing by some intuition of her own womanhood that no man wants to know everything of any woman.
I do not believe there is any important difference between men and women - certainly not as much as they may be between one woman and another or one man and another.
Be born anywhere, little embryo novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden of original sin, not under the doom of Salvation.
The boundary between civilization and barbarism is difficult to draw: put one ring in your nose and you are a savage, put two rings in your ears and you are civilized.
For no country is a true democracy whose women have not an equal share in life with men, and until we realize this we shall never achieve a real democracy on this earth.