Some people have nothing but experience.
Taking somebody's sacrifices is like taking counterfeit money. You're only the poorer.
A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
No Vermont town ever let anybody in it starve.
Compared with more emotional types, Vermonters seem to have few passions. But those they have are great and burning. The greatest is their conviction that without freedom human life is not worth living.
What a fearfully distracting, perplexing and heart-searching business it is to live.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.
I was the first woman to paint cleanly, and that was the basis of my success. From a hundred pictures, mine will always stand out. And so the galleries began to hang my work in their best rooms, always in the middle, because my painting was attractive. It was precise. It was 'finished'.
Good listeners have a huge advantage. For one, when they engage in conversation, they make people 'feel' heard. They 'feel' that someone really understands their wants, needs and desires. And for good reason; a good listener does care to understand.
Even from my sick bed, even if you are going to lower me into the grave and I feel something is going wrong, I will get up.
The more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment, depression, and despair.