“If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that—warm things, kind things, sweet things—help and comfort and laughter—and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all.”
― A Little Princess
― A Little Princess
“Just because you can live without someone doesn't mean you want to.”
― After I Do
― After I Do
“Now, there are many millions in their sects and churches who feel the order, 'Do thou,' and throw their weight into obedience. And there are millions more who feel predestination in 'Thou shalt.' Nothing they may do can interfere with what will be. But 'Thou mayest'! Why, that makes a man great, that gives him stature with the gods, for in his weakness and his filth and his murder of his brother he has still the great choice. He can choose his course and fight it through and win.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“Isn't it nice when you've outgrown the ideas of what life should be and you just enjoy what it is?”
― After I Do
― After I Do
“Love, she learned, could reduce its recipient to an essential thing, as important as food or shelter, whose presence is not only longed for but needed.”
― A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
― A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
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