A foreigner is a friend I have yet to meet.
None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with adventurers.
It is love itself that is important -- the ability to love, no matter whom you love. For when you can no longer love anyone, you are no longer a living person. The heart dies if it loses the capacity to love.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.
The truth has never been told about women in history: that everywhere man has gone woman has gone too, and what he has done she has done also. Women are ignorant of their own past and ignorant of their own importance in that past.
there's two kinds of folk in the world, just like there's two kinds of life in a seed. Something sends one kind up to hunt its food in the light and air, and sends the other kind down into the earth to make the roots.
though some men did not make war as others did, if they sold their goods for profit to the war-makers, did it make them better because the weapon was not in their own hands, if they had made the weapon and sold it and so put it into the hands of those used it upon the innocent?
When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.
If I have learned anything in my long life it is to be grateful for every occasion when I followed my sympathies and avoided my antipathies.
As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.
Somehow I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself
The boundary between civilization and barbarism is difficult to draw: put one ring in your nose and you are a savage, put two rings in your ears and you are civilized.
It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.
to know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a gate to the universe." from Pavilion of Women page 292
There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream -- whatever that dream might be.
A knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the future. Fate...is not the blind superstition or helplessness that waits stupidly for what may happen. Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself to ignorance.
Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.
None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
I do not believe in a child world. It is a fantasy world. I believe the child should be taught from the very first that the whole world is his world, that adult and child share one world, that all generations are needed.
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