"Work is the only only only remedy for life: for happiness, for interest, for stability, for security. Hard, willed work. Oh work!"

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Source : Elizabeth Smart, Alice Van Wart (1991). “Necessary secrets: the journals of Elizabeth Smart”, Grafton Books

Elizabeth Smart

#Stability Quotes #Interest Quotes #Remedy Quotes

“I was always bigger than the other girls. My sisters are very, very beautiful and very skinny, and I've always had a more muscular body. So I grew up with a different mentality.”
“High school is about finding who you are, because that's more important than trying to be someone else.”
“Under the federal reserve act, panics are scientifically created. The present panic is the first scientifically created one, worked out as we figured, a mathematical equation.”
“To be an architect has been a life-long dream. Little did I know when asked at the age of 14 'what do you want to do when you grow up?' I said I wanted to be an architect. After 50 years I am still learning all what that means. Working together with so many people has been enormously gratifying. Being an architect means being a member of a fantastic team.”
“Designing a dream city is easy; rebuilding a living one takes imagination.”

Source : Jane Jacobs (2016). “Vital Little Plans: The Short Works of Jane Jacobs”, p.129, Random House
“I say this with all respect so that it don't upset you too bad, but I say it anyway. When I read in the Bible where he [Jesus] says, 'I Am,' I just smile and say, 'Yes, I Am, too!'”
“Faith is the summit of the Torah.”
“If each of us would only sweep our own doorstep, the whole World would be clean.”

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