Life was a series of messes, and one spent one's time cleaning them up; if one had any heart at all one also gave a part of one's time to cleaning up those of other people. Phyllis Bottome More Quotes by Phyllis Bottome More Quotes From Phyllis Bottome There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. Phyllis Bottome changemotivationalinspirational if you listen long enough - or is it deep enough? - the silence of a lover can speak plainer than any words! Only you must know how to listen. Pain must have taught you how. Phyllis Bottome painsilencelong It's a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true. Phyllis Bottome learningmatterpeople To be a Jew is to be strong with a strength that has outlived persecutions. It is to be wise against ignorance, honest against piracy, harmless against evil, kind against cruelty Phyllis Bottome strongignorancewise When a reserved person once begins to talk, nothing can stop him; and he does not want to have to listen, until he has quite finished his unfamiliar exertion. Phyllis Bottome doewanttalking She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it. Phyllis Bottome ropeorderchildren all daughters, even when most aggravated by their mothers, have a secret respect for them. They believe perhaps that they can do everything better than their mothers can, and many things they can do better, but they have not yet lived long enough to be sure how successfully they will meet the major emergencies of life, which lie, sometimes quite creditably, behind their mothers. Phyllis Bottome daughtermotherlying Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness. Phyllis Bottome laughterhumorinspirational Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it. Phyllis Bottome foolluckforget When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings. Phyllis Bottome wellspersonsfeelings A blossom must break the sheath it has been sheltered by. Phyllis Bottome progressgrowthchange Morale is not a single instinct. It has many ingredients. A sense of personal responsibility, the natural courage of an individual, the amount of his acquired self-discipline -- and above all his interest in others -- these together make up the spirit of morale. Phyllis Bottome disciplineresponsibilityself Feelings change facts. Phyllis Bottome feelings-changefeelingsfacts The only creative power I know is that of what might roughly be called 'love'; not of course a sentimental love: a far more impersonal and less individual emotion. I sometimes think that migratory birds may have it for each other. They fly in the same direction, and have never been seen to interfere with each other's flights. Phyllis Bottome creativebirdthinking We do good by ourselves, but we seldom do wrong alone. Phyllis Bottome good-and-evilevil Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it. Phyllis Bottome clarityintentiontruth All persecution is a sign of fear; for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should not mind others holding it. Phyllis Bottome opiniondifferentmind This is the real tragedy of mankind, that until now the spirit of man has not been able to free itself, even along the path of its own development, from the tentacles of self-deception. Phyllis Bottome realselfmen Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within. Phyllis Bottome outsiderschangepeople Time indeed has very little to do with living except at its beginning or near its end. Phyllis Bottome endstimelittles
