Corra May Harris Professions : Writer Born : March 17, 1869 Died : February 7, 1935 Browse All Authors Top 27 quotes by Corra May Harris Not everything you hear about yourself can be considered good publicity. And if you have delicate sensibilities, the currycomb of public imagination frequently rubs your vanities the wrong way. Corra May Harris vanity imagination way I love truth, although I shall die hating mere facts, because they are misleading. Corra May Harris truth-love hate facts If you wish to collect complimentary material for a record of yourself, never appeal to your relations. They may be proud of you as an asset to the family name, but they have a gift for remembering your gawky period privately, the follies and faults you committed and have forgotten. You may have come up in the world with a laurel on your brow, but if you go back home forty years later wearing two laurels on your brow, and a noble expression, they will miss the point. Corra May Harris family expression home if one's natural feelings are suppressed long enough one develops supernatural feelings and feels surer of having a soul. Corra May Harris soul feelings long There is something in the quality of the French mind to which I have always felt a reluctant kinship. They are the only people I know who can leap into an enormous vocabulary of words and beat them up with the wings of their spirit into a fine hysterical eloquence. Corra May Harris vocabulary wings people I think now happiness is a thing you practice like music until you have skill in striking the right notes on time. We have no vocation for it. And I had no practice, not a day when I was free from care and one great anxiety - and one must be free to be happy. I know that much about it by having missed it. Corra May Harris practice happiness thinking The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly. Corra May Harris memorial-day wisdom courage Similar Authors Ihab Hassan writer Ingmar Bergman writer Isabella Bird writer Ivan E. Coyote writer Al Feldstein writer Bert Sugar writer All Authors