Nan Fairbrother Quotes
I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would be the completely expendable.
Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other people but for ourselves.
Enthusiasm is a plant which grows variously in the varying soils of different natures.
It is always one of the tragedies of any relationship, even between people sensitive to each other's moods, that the moments of emotion so rarely coincide.
children are not undeveloped versions of adult people: they are a different race of beings: they are children.
The sorrows we imagine are more profound and inconsolable than real life leaves us time for.
happiness makes us older, less romantic, less in need of dreams. Discontent, not happiness, is the food of youth and poetry.
We love those we are happy with. We do. For how else can we know we love them, or how else define loving?
Perhaps the way with any obsession is to ignore it simply. Not to fight it, since it draws strength from any contact with us, whether hostile or friendly.
The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that we love them, not when we feel like it, but when they do.
Every search has its own momentum. It is why a search makes such an excellent plot for a film or story.
... garden books are quite unconscious that besides telling us how to turn our patch of earth into a garden, they are also expressing the way their age looks at the world, the state of their society.
One of the many possible divisions of human beings is into those who make and those who use.
The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection and not a fountain to show them that we love them not when we feel like it but when they do.