Lord, I do not ask that Thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest. Kate Douglas Wiggin More Quotes by Kate Douglas Wiggin More Quotes From Kate Douglas Wiggin Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility. Kate Douglas Wiggin god baby children Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world. Kate Douglas Wiggin mothers-day family funny There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed. Kate Douglas Wiggin magic going-away travel Never miss a joy in this world of trouble-that's my theory!.... Kate Douglas Wiggin atmosphere missing joy If I haven't anything to write, I am just as anxious to 'take my pen in hand' as though I had a message to deliver, a cause to plead, or a problem to unfold. Nothing but writing rests me; only then do I seem completely myself! Kate Douglas Wiggin messages writing hands Some folks mistakes all they see for all there is. Kate Douglas Wiggin folks mistake Maternal love, like an orange tree, buds and blossoms and bears at once. When a woman puts her finger for the first time into the tiny hand of her baby and feels that helpless clutch which tightens her very heartstrings, she is born again with her newborn child. Kate Douglas Wiggin daughter mom baby There is nothing so debilitating to a naturally weak sense of humor as selling tickets behind a grating. Kate Douglas Wiggin sense-of-humor selling tickets If you make children happy now, you will make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it. Kate Douglas Wiggin happiness memories children It is very funny, but you do not always have to see people to love them. Just think about it, and see if it isn't so. Kate Douglas Wiggin ifs people thinking There are some who possess the magic touch, the infectious spirit of enthusiasm; who have the same effect as a beautiful morning that never reaches noon. Under this spell one's mind is braced, one's spirit recreated; one is ready for any adventure, even if it only be the doing of the next distasteful task light-heartedly. Kate Douglas Wiggin encouragement morning beautiful Why is it that the people with whom one loves to be silent are also the very ones with whom one loves to talk? Kate Douglas Wiggin silent friends people To make my diary a little different I am going to call it a Thought Book ... I have thoughts that I never can use unlesss I write them down, for Aunt Miranda always says, Keep your thoughts to yourself. Kate Douglas Wiggin aunt writing book Please drop a note to the clerk of the weather, and have a good, rousing snow-storm -- say on the twenty-second. None of your meek, gentle, nonsensical, shilly-shallying snow-storms; not the sort where the flakes float lazily down from the sky as if they didn't care whether they ever got here or not, and then melt away as soon as they touch the earth, but a regular business-like whizzing, whirring, blurring, cutting snow-storm, warranted to freeze and stay on! Kate Douglas Wiggin cutting sky weather you can never prove God; you can only find Him! Kate Douglas Wiggin prove god The world is always a new plaything to children, while to the old it seems falling to pieces from sheer dryness. Everything loses its value with time, but it is not the fault of the fruit, but of the mouth and the tongue. Kate Douglas Wiggin appreciation children fall the habit of generalizing from one particular, that mainstay of the cheap and obvious essayist, has rooted many fictions in the public eye. Nothing, for example can blot from my memory the profound, searching, and exhaustive analysis of a great nation which I learned in my small geography when I was a child, namely, 'The French are a gay and polite people fond of dancing and light wines. Kate Douglas Wiggin wine memories children Miranda Sawyer had a heart, of course, but she had never used it for any other purpose than the pumping and circulating of blood. Kate Douglas Wiggin purpose heart blood Bear figs for a season or two, and the world outside the orchard is very unwilling you should bear thistles. Kate Douglas Wiggin success two world Father doesn't think very sudden, but he thinks awful strong. Kate Douglas Wiggin strong father thinking
