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“It is a truth universally acknowledged” UGH an iconic opening line

Yes, again!

“Families shrink and expand. All you can really do is be glad for it, glad for each other, for as long as you have each other.”

Peter’s mom drives me crazy. Stop putting your worries about your son on his girlfriend, wth?? Talk to your son???

TELLING HER TO BREAK UP W HIM IS INSANE

“My being charming, Harriet, is not quite enough to induce me to marry; I must find other people charming—one other person at least.” this made me giggle

“Only four-and-twenty. That is too young to settle.” Right on ✊🏼

“Perhaps it would’ve been better to pine than to mourn.”

I’m actually coming around the stream of consciousness writing style bc it’s exactly how I write in my journal

This book is NOTHING if not VIOLENTLY 2016. “Mason jars and gingham—but elegant” 🤢

“The secret of being miserable is having the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. Keep active. Keep busy.”

“He sent that me is with me. The father hath not left me alone.”

“When a [person] can joke over their troubles instead of having hysterics, nothing can ever hurt them much again. I do not regret the hardships I have known, because through them, I have touched life at every point that I have lived.”

“It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that makes them little sisters to all the world.”

“I believe God is managing affairs, and He doesn’t need any advice from me. Everything will work out for the best in the end, so what is there to worry about?”

“[People] are not meant to understand life, but to live it.”

“Thinking of others will not only keep you from worrying about yourself. It will also help you to make a lot of friends and have a lot of fun.”

“Doing good things to others is not a duty, it is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness.” “When you are good to others you are good to yourself.”

“The darkest moments we live through can only last a little time. And then comes the future.”

I shall pass this way but once, therefore, any good that I can do or any kindness that I can show, let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.”

“A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses.”

“Try to think every day how you can please someone.”

“Get interested in them and see what you can do for them.”

“The north wind made the Vikings. Wherever did we get the idea that secure and pleasant living, the absence of difficulty, and the comfort of ease ever of themselves made people either good or happy?”

“With malice toward none, with charity for all.”

“No matter what happens, always be yourself.”

“There are two things to aim for in life. First, to get what you want, and after that, to enjoy it.”

“Those children breathed in warmth and radiant human kindness all during their childhoods. Is it any wonder that now that the situation is reversed, they give back love?”

“The ideal [person] takes joy in doing favors for others.”

Just for today by Sybil F. Partridge

“Our life is what our thoughts make it.”