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- I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978)
- Work is not always required... there is such a thing as sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.
- George McDonald
- Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.
- Lin Yutang
- We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
- Olive Schreiner (1855 - 1920)
- Is life worth living?
Aye, with the best of us,
Heights of us, depths of us -
Life is the test of us! - Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
- Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
- Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616)
- We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.
- Edward Sellner
- Life is not so important as the duties of life.
- John Randolph (1773 - 1833)
- Women and men have to fight together to change society - and both will benefit... Partnership, not dependence, is the real romance in marriage.
- Muriel Fox
- The act of nutrition is not a purely physiological event... The family meal is a formality that cultivates in us... a capacity for sharing, generosity, thoughtfulness, a talent for civilized conversation.
- Francine Du Plessix Gray
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