There is always a third possibility, as long as you have the ability to find it.

- Selma Lagerlöf

Strange, when you ask anyone's advice you see yourself what is right.

- Selma Lagerlöf

Women can do nothing that has permanence.

- Selma Lagerlöf

For, so long as there are interesting books to read, it seems to me that neither I nor anyone else, for that matter, need be unhappy.

- Selma Lagerlöf

Never repeat a rumor before you have verified it. And if it is true, hold your tongue all the more.

- Selma Lagerlöf

Nothing on earth can make up for the loss of one who has loved you.

- Selma Lagerlöf

No one is able to enjoy such feast than the one who throws a party in his own mind.

- Selma Lagerlöf

He who is sorrowful can force himself to smile, but he who is glad cannot weep.

- Selma Lagerlöf

What is so certain of victory as patience?

- Selma Lagerlöf