- Just breathing isn’t living!
- There were times, indeed, when the vigor she put into her work was more of a relief to her feelings than it was an ardor to efface dirt.
- And most generally there is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find it.
- She had been too busy wishing things were different to find much time to enjoy things as they were.
- What men and women need is encouragement. Their natural resisting powers should be strengthened, not weakened…. Instead of always harping on a man’s faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut of bad habits. Hold up to him his better self, his REAL self that can dare and do and win out!
- The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious, and may revolutionize a whole town…. People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts. If a man feels kindly and obliging, his neighbors will feel that way, too, before long. But if he scolds and scowls and criticizes—his neighbors will return scowl for scowl, and add interest!… When you look for the bad, expecting it, you will get it. When you know you will find the good—you will get that …