32 quotes
American writer (1873–1947)
“That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.”
"The old man smiled. 'I shall not die of a cold, my son. I shall die of having lived."
on Life
"Religion is different from everything else because in religion seeking is finding."
on Faith
"The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor."
on Ambition
"That is happiness: to be dissolved into something completely great."
on Happiness
"That is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great."
"Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything."
on Friendship
"Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness."
on Compassion
"It's by understanding me, and the boys, and mother, that you have helped me. I expect that is the only way one person ever really can help another."
on Relationships
"Miracles surround us at every turn, if we but sharpen our perceptions to them."
on Perception
"It's all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies; our enemies can never hurt us very much. But oh, what about forgiving our friends?"
on Wisdom
"There are some things you learn best in calm and some in storm."
"There is only one big thing-desire. And before it when it is big all is little."
on Philosophy
"Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything."
"Where there is great love there are always wishes."
on Love
"I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do."
on Nature
"Where there is great love, there are always wishes."
"It seems to me that the pleasure one feels in a work of art is just one thing that one does not have to explain."
on Art
"Where there is great love, there are always miracles."
"There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before."
"The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire."
