Tina

“It's not good at all—mind that, Diamond—to do everything for those you love, and not give them a share in the doing. It's not kind. It's making too much of yourself.”
― George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind

“But to try to make others comfortable is the only way to get right comfortable ourselves, and that comes partly of not being able to think so much about ourselves when we are helping other people. For our Selves will always do pretty well if we don't pay them too much attention. Our Selves are like some little children who will be happy enough so long as they are left to their own games, but when we begin to interfere with them, and make them presents of too nice playthings, or too many sweet things, they begin at once to fret and spoil.”
― George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind

“Everything, dreaming and all, has got a soul in it, or else it's worth nothing, and we don't care a bit about it. Some of our thoughts are worth nothing, because they've got no soul in them.”
― George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind

“There are not many people who can think about beautiful things and do common work at the same time. But then there are not many people who have been to the back of the north wind.”
― George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind