Myrtle Reed famous quotes

Penetrate deeply in the secret existence of anyone about you, even of the man or woman whom you count happiest, and you will come upon things they spend all their efforts to hide. Fair as the exterior may be, if you go in, you will find bare places, heaps of rubbish that can never be taken away, cold hearths, desolate altars, and windows veiled with cobwebs.
-- Myrtle Reed

#Taken #Men #Effort

I've always thought my flowers had souls.
-- Myrtle Reed

#Flower #Soul

Did you ever read a love-letter that wasn't an evidence of idiocy - except your own?
-- Myrtle Reed

#Letters #Love Letter #Evidence

As if by magic, the love of the many comes with the love of the one.
-- Myrtle Reed

#Magic

it is bad manners to contradict a guest. You must never insult people in your own house - always go to theirs.
-- Myrtle Reed

#People #House #Guests

On that first day when we look back, either happily or with remorse, to the stony ways over which we have traveled, losing concern for that part of the journey which is yet to come, we have grown old.
-- Myrtle Reed

#Journey #Age #Looks

For the size of it, a check book is about the greatest convenience I know of.
-- Myrtle Reed

#Book #Size #Checks

It all depends on the way you look at it. The point of view is everything in this world.
-- Myrtle Reed

#Views #Perspective #World

The fine gifts of temperament and imagination which are essential to the production of true poetry are often accompanied by morbid sensibility. The soul capable of ecstasy and transport must pay its price in suffering; he who walks upon the heights must sometimes grovel in the dust.
-- Myrtle Reed

#Dust #Imagination #Soul

No woman need fear the effect of absence upon the man who honestly loves her. The needle of the compass, regardless of intervening seas, points forever toward the north. Pitiful indeed is she who fails to be a magnet and blindly becomes a chain.
-- Myrtle Reed

#Men #Sea #Forever

In every life there is a perfect moment, like a flash of sun. We can shape our days by that, if we will - before by faith, and afterward by memory.
-- Myrtle Reed

#Memories #Perfect #Live In The Moment

Fortunately age does not affect literature. After a man is dead, he may continue in the business and often rank higher than his living competitors.
-- Myrtle Reed

#Men #Age #May

The only way to win happiness is to give it. The more we give, the more we have.
-- Myrtle Reed

#Happiness #Winning #Giving

Home is a place where we all do as we please - usually regardless of the others.
-- Myrtle Reed

#Home #Please

One uncongenial guest can ruin a dinner more easily than a poor salad, and that is saying a great deal.
-- Myrtle Reed

#Guests #Dinner #Salad

If there's anythin' on earth that can be more tryin' than any kind of relative, I don't know what it is, but relatives by marriage comes first - easy.
-- Myrtle Reed

#Firsts #Earth #Kind

Love and hate always remember; it is only indifference that forgets.
-- Myrtle Reed

#Hate #Remember #Indifference

One of the most interesting things in the world to me is the vast difference between what people say they are going to do, and what they actually do.
-- Myrtle Reed

#Differences #Interesting #People

When a little pleasure has flashed for a moment against the dark, I have made that jewel mine. I have hundreds of them ... I call it my Necklace of Perfect Joy. When the world goes wrong, I have only to close my eyes and remember all the links in my chain, set with gems, some large and some small, but all beautiful with the beauty which never fades. It is all I can take with me when I go. My material possessions must stay behind, but my Necklace of Perfect Joy will bring me happiness to the end, when I put it on, to be nevermore unclasped.
-- Myrtle Reed

#Beautiful #Eye #Dark

A letter has distinct advantages. You can say all you want to say before the other person has a chance to put in a word.
-- Myrtle Reed

#Letters #Want #Chance

Revolution is obstructed evolution.
-- Myrtle Reed

#Revolution #Evolution

Activity is a sovereign remedy for the blues.
-- Myrtle Reed

#Sadness #Sovereign #Remedy

Youth asks no greater privilege than to fight its own battles. It is mistaken kindness to shield - it weakens one in the years to come.
-- Myrtle Reed

#Kindness #Fighting #Years

If we could only use other folks' experience, this here world would be heaven in about three generations, but we're so constructed that we never believe fire'll burn till we poke our own fingers into it to see. Other folks' scars don't go no ways at all toward convincin' us.
-- Myrtle Reed

#Believe #Fire #Heaven

Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.
-- Myrtle Reed

#Men #Sea #White

... no matter how one's heart aches, one can do the necessary things and do them well.
-- Myrtle Reed

#Heart #Matter #Ache

When the years bring wisdom, one learns to leave many problems to their own working out.
-- Myrtle Reed

#Years #Work Out #Problem

There isn't a new sorrow in the world -- they're all old ones -- but we can all find new happiness if we look in the right way.
-- Myrtle Reed

#Sorrow #Way #Looks

... sometimes, out of bitterness, the years distill forgiveness.
-- Myrtle Reed

#Years #Bitterness #Sometimes

... the song of the world is all of love.
-- Myrtle Reed

#Song #World

Nothing is bad which does not harm either you or someone else.
-- Myrtle Reed

#Doe #Harm #Wrongdoing

The spirit in which one earns his daily bread means as much to his soul as the bread itself may mean to his body.
-- Myrtle Reed

#Work #Mean #Soul

I had thought, in my blindness, that the great things were the easiest to do, but now I see that drudgery is an inseparable part of everything worth while, and the more worth while it is, the more drudgery is involved.
-- Myrtle Reed

#Work #Blindness #Inseparable

Married and unmarried women waste a great deal of time in feeling sorry for each other.
-- Myrtle Reed

#Sorry #Women #Feelings

when one has learned to wait patiently, one has learned to live.
-- Myrtle Reed

#Waiting

when you can't see straight ahead, it's because you're about to turn a corner.
-- Myrtle Reed

#Turns #Uncertainty

The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.
-- Myrtle Reed

#Time #Way #Timing

content is a matter of temperament rather than circumstance ...
-- Myrtle Reed

#Matter #Circumstances #Temperament

Those who have been made great have first suffered.
-- Myrtle Reed

#Suffering #Firsts #Made

Sins of commission are far more productive of happiness than the sins of omission.
-- Myrtle Reed

#Omission #Sin #Productive

Marriage is the process by which a woman deprives herself of an escort.
-- Myrtle Reed

#Process

I've just washed my hair and I can't do a thing with it!
-- Myrtle Reed

#Hair

Womankind suffers from three delusions: marriage will reform a man, a rejected lover is heartbroken for life, and if the other women were only out of the way, he would come back.
-- Myrtle Reed

#Heartbroken #Men #Dating

A book, unlike any other friend, will wait, not only upon the hour but upon the mood.
-- Myrtle Reed

#Book #Waiting #Mood