the habit of shutting doors behind us is invaluable to happiness; we must learn to shut life's doors to cut out the futile wind of past mistakes.

- Marjorie Holmes

Man is the only creature whose emotions are entangled with his memory.

- Marjorie Holmes

Thank you, God, for the dignity and beauty of self. The precious innate self. The only thing that can't be taken from us. The only thing we really ow…

- Marjorie Holmes

The man or woman who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself.

- Marjorie Holmes

There must be some deep psychological reason why we turn so instinctively toward home at this special time. . . . A place where every day will be Chr…

- Marjorie Holmes

Death is the perfect knowing.

- Marjorie Holmes

What feeling in all the world is so nice as that of a child's hand in yours? It is soft. It is small and warm. It is as innocent and guileless as a r…

- Marjorie Holmes

simply to ask a blessing upon one's circumstances, whatever they are, is somehow to improve them, and to tap some mysterious source of energy and joy.

- Marjorie Holmes

poetry ... is another way to be hurled straight into the heart of God.

- Marjorie Holmes