Every moment of worry weakens the soul for its daily combat.

- Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay

time spent in being interrupted is not time lost. ... How do we know but that the interruption we snarl at is the most blessed thing that has come to…

- Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay

Whatever we really are, that let us be, in all fearlessness. Whatever we are not, that let us cease striving to be.

- Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay

Be wise in the use of time. The question in life is not "how much time do we have?" The question is "what shall we do with it?"

- Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay

Let us assume nothing, and we shall not be moritifed.

- Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay

Life is large. We cannot possibly grasp the whole of it in the few years that we have to live. What is vital? What is essential? What may we profitab…

- Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay

Value work. But not any kind of work. Ask yourself "Is the work vital, strengthening my own character, or inspiring others, or helping the world?".

- Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay

Worry is spiritual nearsightedness, a fumbling way of looking at little things, and of magnifying their value.

- Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay

It costs to be a friend or to have a friend. There is nothing else in life except motherhood that costs so much. It not only costs time, affection, p…

- Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay