"If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that--warm things, kind things, sweet things--help and comfort and laughter--and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all."

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Source : Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “A Little Princess”, p.44, Xist Publishing

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#Sweet Quotes #Laughter Quotes #Princess Quotes

“Nobody does anything better than me in baseball (said before the 1971 World Series).”
“Believing in the Jesus of the Bible makes life risky on a lot of levels because it is absolute surrender of every decision we make, every dollar we spend, our lives belong to another.”
“Parents - and teachers too - are woefully short-sighted when they try to protect the child from his mistakes, when they make the "right answer" more important than the quest for knowledge and good judgment. For what is not learned within one's self cannot be learned from another.”
“Learn Arabic, for it strengthens the intelligence and increases oneâ€™s noble conduct (al-murÃ»`ah).”
“Iâ€™m definitely a girly-girl and I love playing with fashion, but at the same time I will go skydiving with you tomorrow.”
“The viewer who sees only a study in the picture of the glass jug illuminated from behind fails to appreciate the masterly composition, the noble purity of the lines, the rich plasticity of the form and consequently also the poetry and beauty of the picture, and still more important, its specifically photographic qualities.”
“Only dull and impotent artists screen their work with sincerity. In art there is need for truth, not sincerity.”
“When you fall in love, it is spring no matter when. Leaves falling make no difference, they are from another season.”

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