8 quotes
Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.
To My Daughters, With Love (1967)
To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
To My Daughters, With Love (1967)
Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
To My Daughters, With Love (1967)
You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
To My Daughters, With Love (1967)
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
To My Daughters, With Love (1967)
Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
To My Daughters, With Love (1967)
The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband’s bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.
To My Daughters, With Love (1967)
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
To My Daughters, With Love (1967)