1,328 quotes found
“The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much unintermit-tent gloom.”
“Misery is a communicable disease.”
“There is not one big cosmic meaning for all there is only the meaning we each give to our life an individual meaning an individual plot like an individual novel a book for each person.”
“If you believe then you hang on. If you believe it means you've got imagination you don't need stuff thrown out on a blueprint and don't face facts - what can stop you? If I don't make it today...”
“I see myself as Rhoda not Mary Tyler Moore.”
“Never give way to melancholy resist it steadily for the habit will encroach.”
“The surest sign of fitness is success.”
“Despair is criminal.”
“From the first I made my learning what little it was useful every way I could.”
“Even the cry from the depths is an affirmation: Why cry if there is no hint or hope of hearing?”
“I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school. So I didn't bake cookies. You can buy cookies but you can't buy love.”
“God hates those who praise themselves.”
“If you wish in this world to advance Your merits you're bound to enhance You must stir it and stump it And blow your own trumpet Or trust me you haven't a chance.”
“I am an ordinary person but carried to extremes.”
“Let another man praise thee and not thine own mouth.”
“I am not a glutton-I am an explorer of food.”
“It is better to be tied to any thorny bush than to be with a cross man.”
“I don't follow precedent I establish it.”
“Your future depends on many things but mostly on you.”
“I am because my little dog knows me.”