You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
Excellence does not require perfection.
And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the only, the yours.
I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
Deep experience is never peaceful.
What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.
However British you may be, I am more British still.
He was there or was not there: not there if I didn’t see him.
Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.