Quotes by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

…there are two ways to meet life; you may refuse to care until indifference becomes a habit, a defensive armor, and you are safe – but bored. Or you can care greatly, live greatly, until life breaks you on its wheel.

Armor

Bored

Two

A mom isn’t an individual to lean on, but a person to generate leaning needless.

Individual

Mom

Persons

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

Family

Funny

Mothers Day

Almost anything is enough to keep alive someone who wishes nothing for himself but time to write music.

Music

Wish

Writing

Compared with more emotional types, Vermonters seem to have few passions. But those they have are great and burning. The greatest is their conviction that without freedom human life is not worth living.

Burning

Emotional

Passion

don’t let anything make you believe that there are not as many decent men in the world as women, and they’re just as decent. Life isn’t worth living unless you know that – and it’s true.

Believe

Men

World

Everyone bowed to that unwritten law of family life which ordains that, in the long run, everyone submerges his personal preference in the effort to conform to that of the member of the circle who complains most loudly and is most difficult to satisfy.

Family

Law

Running

Father sticks to it that anything that promises to pay too much can’t help being risky.

Father

Pay

Promise

Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.

Fighting

Justice

Mean

gossip … is only fiction produced by non-professionals.

Fiction

Gossip

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America

Armor

Art

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Beauty

Believe

Body

Bored

Burning

Character

Children

Clubs

Corn

Counterfeit

Counterfeit Money

Dangerous Situations

Discipline

Doe

Education

Eggs

Emotional

Encounters

Enough

Essentials

Evil

Eye

Family

Father

Fiction

Fifteen

Fighting

Food

Funny

Games

Glasses

Gossip

Growing

Hands

Heart

Helping

Home

Humorous

Husband

Individual

Inspirational

Justice

Knows

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Quotes by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

…there are two ways to meet life; you may refuse to care until indifference becomes a habit, a defensive armor, and you are safe – but bored. Or you can care greatly, live greatly, until life breaks you on its wheel.

A mom isn’t an individual to lean on, but a person to generate leaning needless.

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

Almost anything is enough to keep alive someone who wishes nothing for himself but time to write music.

Compared with more emotional types, Vermonters seem to have few passions. But those they have are great and burning. The greatest is their conviction that without freedom human life is not worth living.

don’t let anything make you believe that there are not as many decent men in the world as women, and they’re just as decent. Life isn’t worth living unless you know that – and it’s true.

Everyone bowed to that unwritten law of family life which ordains that, in the long run, everyone submerges his personal preference in the effort to conform to that of the member of the circle who complains most loudly and is most difficult to satisfy.

Father sticks to it that anything that promises to pay too much can’t help being risky.

Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.

gossip … is only fiction produced by non-professionals.

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