"It is better to have crooked legs than a crooked spirit. We can only do the best we can with what we have. That, after all, is the measure of success: what we do with what we have."

-- Marguerite de Angeli

#Legs Quotes #Spirit Quotes #Measure Of Success Quotes

“Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.”
“We teach children to save their money. As an attempt to counteract thoughtless and selfish expenditure, that has value. But it is not positive; it does not lead the child into the safe and useful avenues of self-expression or self-expenditure. To teach a child to invest and use is better than to teach him to save.”
“My mother was a Bohemian - in the good sense of the word. A searcher. And she investigated various religions.”
“I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.”
“The perpetual stream of human nature is formed into ever-changing shallows, eddies, falls and pools by the land over which it passes. Perhaps the only real value of history lies in considering this endlessly varied play between the essence and the accidents.”

Source : MARY RENAULT (1966). “THE MASK OF APOLLO”
“High school is just like glee, a bunch of people dying of drug overdose.”
“There's a lot of crappy music that people like, you know, all over the world, and Norway is definitely not an exception.”
“Yeah, like, when I look back on my life, I just remember back what happened in '74, or something. It seems like only the real good stuff comes to mind. I don't think of all the tragedies and all the funerals. That just doesn't come to mind at all. I guess I'm really blessed that way.”

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