Lydia M. Child
The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.Collection: Love
Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.Collection: Success
None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.Collection: Courage
An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.Collection: Happiness
Prejudices of all kinds have their strongest holds in the minds of the vulgar and the ignorant.Collection: Ignorant
Happiness consists not in having much, but in wanting no more than you have.Collection: Happiness
So easy it is to see the errors of past ages, so difficult to acknowledge our own!Collection: Past
The boughs of no two trees ever have the same arrangement. Nature always produces individuals; She never produces classes.Collection: Being Yourself
Work! work! that is my unfailing cure for all troubles.Collection: Work
You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.Collection: Inspirational
Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.Collection: Wise
a great mind can attend to little things, but a little mind cannot attend to great things.Collection: Mind
It is my mission to help in the breaking down of classes, and to make all men feel as if they were brethren of the same family, sharing the same rights, the same capabilities, and the same responsibilities. While my hand can hold a pen, I will use it to this end; and while my brain can earn a dollar, I will devote it to this end.Collection: Responsibility
They [slaves] have stabbed themselves for freedom-jumped into the waves for freedom-starved for freedom-fought like very tigers for freedom! But they have been hung, and burned, and shot-and their tyrants have been their historians!Collection: Tyrants
Love is the divine quality that everywhere produces and restores life. To each and every one of us, it gives the power of working miracles if we will.Collection: Love
I will work in my own way, according to the light that is in me.Collection: Light
The rarest attainment is to grow old happily and gracefully.Collection: Aging
It is impossible to exaggerate the evil work theology has done in the world.Collection: Evil
The United States is a warning rather than an example to the world.Collection: United States
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.Collection: Family
I think every individual, and every society, is perfected just in proportion to the combination, and cooperation, of masculine and feminine elements of character. He is the most perfect man who is affectionate as well as intellectual; and she is the most perfect woman who is intellectual as well as affectionate. Every art and science becomes more interesting, viewed both from the masculine and feminine points of view.Collection: Art
Avoid the necessity of a physician, if you can, by careful attention to your diet. Eat what best agrees with your system, and resolutely abstain from what hurts you, however well you may like it. A few days' abstinence, and cold water for a beverage, has driven off many an approaching disease.Collection: Hurt
Make people happy and there will not be half the quarreling, or a tenth part of the wickedness there now is.Collection: People
But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.Collection: Men
To everything there is a bright side and a dark side; and I hold it to be unwise, unphilosophic, unkind to others, and unhealthy for one's own soul, to form the habit of looking on the dark side. Cheerfulness is to the spiritual atmosphere what sunshine is to the earthly landscape. I am resolved to cherish cheerfulness with might and main.Collection: Spiritual
Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of their character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.Collection: Love
Even if nothing worse than wasted mental effort could be laid to the charge of theology, that alone ought to be sufficient to banish it from the earth, as one of the worst enemies of mankind.Collection: Worst Enemy
The old men gazed on them in their loveliness, and turned away with that deep and painful sigh, which the gladness of childhood, and thetransient beauty of youth, are so apt to awaken in the bosom of the aged.Collection: Men
Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.Collection: Angel
Neither lemonade nor anything else can prevent the inroads of old age. At present, I am stoical under its advances, and hope I shall remain so. I have but one prayer at heart; and that is, to have my faculties so far preserved that I can be useful, in some way or other, to the last.Collection: Prayer
I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book.Collection: Book
our republican ideas cannot be consistently carried out while women are excluded from any share in the government. ... Any class of human beings to whom a position of perpetual subordination is assigned, however much they may be petted and flattered, must inevitably be dwarfed, morally and intellectually.Collection: Government
If we really believed that those who are gone from us were as truly alive as ourselves, we could not invest the subject with such awful depth of gloom as we do. If we could imbue our children with distinct faith in immortality, we should never speak of people as dead, but passed into another world. We should speak of the body as a cast-off garment, which the wearer had outgrown; consecrated indeed by the beloved being that used it for a season, but of no value within itself.Collection: Death
We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.Collection: Crush
There have always been a large class of thinkers who deny that the world makes any progress. They say we move in a circle; that evils are never conquered, but only change their forms.Collection: Moving
We must not forget that all great revolutions and reformations would look mean and meagre if examined in detail as they occurred at the time.Collection: Change
A human heart can never grow old if it takes a lively interest in the pairing of birds, the reproduction of flowers, and the changing tints of autumn leaves.Collection: Flower
Woman stock is rising in the market. I shall not live to see women vote, but I'll come and rap on the ballot box.Collection: Rap
The civilization of any country may always be measured by the degree of equality between men and women; and society will never come truly into order until there is perfect equality and copartnership between them in every department of human life.Collection: Country
Not in vain is Ireland pouring itself all over the earth. The Irish, with their glowing hearts and reverent credulity, are needed in this cold age of intellect and skepticism.Collection: Heart
Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.Collection: Love
Law is not law, if it violates the principles of eternal justice.Collection: Law
It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.Collection: Spiritual
Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles, or a string of mold candles. Why should we all dress after the same fashion? The frost never paints my windows twice alike.Collection: Fashion
A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.Collection: Reform
No music is so pleasant to my ears as that word-father.Collection: Father
Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.Collection: Electric Power
Birds and beasts have in fact our own nature, flattened a semi-tone.Collection: Bird