"It all depends on the way you look at it. The point of view is everything in this world."
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Myrtle Reed quotes (page 3 of 6)
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"Revolution is obstructed evolution."
"A man likes to feel that he is loved, a woman likes to be told."
"There isn't a new sorrow in the world -- they're all old ones -- but we can all find new happiness if we look in the right way."
"There is always one way to make anybody do anything - the trouble is to find it."
"Art, if it is art, will develop in whatever circumstances it is placed."
"It seems to take a lifetime for us to learn that wisdom consists largely in a graceful acceptance of things that do not immediately concern us."
"I had thought, in my blindness, that the great things were the easiest to do, but now I see that drudgery is an inseparable part of everything worth while, and the more worth while it is, the more drudgery is involved."
"Fortunately age does not affect literature. After a man is dead, he may continue in the business and often rank higher than his living competitors."
"After the door of a woman's heart has once swung on its silent hinges, a man thinks he can prop it open with a brick and go away and leave it."
"There is only one path which leads to the house of forgiveness - that of understanding."
"It is possible for a spinster to be disappointed in lovers, but only the married are ever disappointed in love."
"The body grows by food and work, the mind by use, and the soul through joy and pain."
"If there's anythin' on earth that can be more tryin' than any kind of relative, I don't know what it is, but relatives by marriage comes first - easy."
"One uncongenial guest can ruin a dinner more easily than a poor salad, and that is saying a great deal."
"I've just washed my hair and I can't do a thing with it!"
"Death is the advertisement, at the end of an autobiography, wherein people discover its virtues."
"It saves trouble to be conventional, for you're not always explaining things."
"But somewhere on the great world the sun is always shining, and, just so sure as you live, it will sometime shine on you."
"Conceit is lovable and unconcealed ; vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden."