Maud Hart Lovelace Quotes

“We're growing up and I don't like it," said Tacy, as they say at Heinz's later, drinking coffee.”

“Betsy dreamed about going away from Deep Valley, but she didn't for a moment suspect that around a bend in her Winding Hall of Fate a journey was actually waiting.”

“Our lives can hold just so much. If they're filled with one thing, they can't be filled with another. We ought to do a lot of thinking about what we want to fill them with.”

“I like to eat yogurt in the morning. It's easy and quick and available anywhere.”

“Don't be afraid of failure be afraid of petty success. ”

“Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best.”

“Genius is the talent for seeing things straight. It is seeing things in a straight line without any bend or break or aberration of sight seeing them as they are without any warping of vision. Flawless mental sight! That is genius.”

“If I smashed the traditions it was because I knew no traditions.”

“The one who deals the mortal blow receives the mortal wound.”

“ThatNeed to knowYour enemyTo surviveIs bitter.”