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

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

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

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

- 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

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

- Marjorie Holmes

some people seem to graze like sheep in the placid pastures of their faith. Some of them were born there and never broke away ... Others, after some …

- Marjorie Holmes

Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realize you're not a nice person a…

- Marjorie Holmes