Life was a series of messes, and one spent one's time cleaning them up; if one had any heart at all one also gave a part of one's time to cleaning up those of other people.
Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within. - Phyllis Bottome
Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.
- Phyllis Bottome
She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves … - Phyllis Bottome
She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves …
Human beings don't show, any more than cities at dusk, their real necessities! And yet if you looked -- past the circle of outside lights, through th… - Phyllis Bottome
Human beings don't show, any more than cities at dusk, their real necessities! And yet if you looked -- past the circle of outside lights, through th…
When a reserved person once begins to talk, nothing can stop him; and he does not want to have to listen, until he has quite finished his unfamiliar … - Phyllis Bottome
When a reserved person once begins to talk, nothing can stop him; and he does not want to have to listen, until he has quite finished his unfamiliar …
Feelings change facts. - Phyllis Bottome
Feelings change facts.
if you listen long enough - or is it deep enough? - the silence of a lover can speak plainer than any words! Only you must know how to listen. Pain m… - Phyllis Bottome
if you listen long enough - or is it deep enough? - the silence of a lover can speak plainer than any words! Only you must know how to listen. Pain m…
Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it. - Phyllis Bottome
Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.
To be a Jew is to be strong with a strength that has outlived persecutions. It is to be wise against ignorance, honest against piracy, harmless again… - Phyllis Bottome
To be a Jew is to be strong with a strength that has outlived persecutions. It is to be wise against ignorance, honest against piracy, harmless again…
Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness. - Phyllis Bottome
Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.
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