Life Quotes

“I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.”

“Be curious, not judgmental.”

“Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.”

“Do anything, but let it produce joy.”

“The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.”

“These are the days that must happen to you.”

“Those who love each other shall become invincible.”

“To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.”

“Life's a voyage that's homeward bound.”

“Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.”

“Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.”

“A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.”