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It is true that her heart is sick, but where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.
Survival (1943)
Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma Life; but what are called "common men and women" have increased it.
Survival (1943)
A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is.
Survival (1943)
Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.
Survival (1943)
A man whose every exertion is bent upon showing up the flaws in his wife’s character must be at least partially responsible for some of them.
Survival (1943)
Her religion was that of all artists — obedience to the laws of her creative art.
Survival (1943)
I wonder how often not the intention but the desire springs up in a doctor's mind: "Can I let this human being out of the trap of Life?"
Survival (1943)
When a reserved person once begins to talk, nothing can stop him, and he does not want to have to listen, until he has quite finished his unfamiliar exertion.
Survival (1943)
Morale is not a single instinct. It has many ingredients. A sense of personal responsibility, the natural courage of an individual, the amount of his acquired self-discipline — and above all his interest in others — these together make up the spirit of morale.
Survival (1943)
I believe that all daughters, even when most aggravated by their mothers, have a secret respect for them. They believe perhaps that they can do everything better than their mothers can, and many things they can do better, but they have not yet lived long enough to be sure how successfully they will meet the major emergencies of life, which lie, sometimes quite creditably, behind their mothers.
Survival (1943)
The only creative power I know is that of what might roughly be called "love"; not of course a sentimental love: a far more impersonal and less individual emotion. I sometimes think that migratory birds may have it for each other. They fly in the same direction, and have never been seen to interfere with each other's flights.
Survival (1943)