“There is something in the quality of the French mind to which I have always felt a reluctant kinship. They are the only people I know who can leap into an enormous vocabulary of words and beat them up with the wings of their spirit into a fine hysterical eloquence.” PeopleKnowsMindSpiritFeltQualityFineBeatsWingsEnormousFranceLeapVocabularyEloquenceReluctantKinshipHysterical Author:Corra May Harris
“I think now happiness is a thing you practice like music until you have skill in striking the right notes on time. We have no vocation for it. And I had no practice, not a day when I was free from care and one great anxiety - and one must be free to be happy. I know that much about it by having missed it.” ThinkingKnowsCareHappinessPracticeSkillsAnxietyNotesVocation Author:Corra May Harris
“I have long suspected that the power of speech is not a power at all, but a mere form of hysteria from which the living that really know the truth never suffer because they do not fear life or death as we do and can afford to be calm and silent. The frailest flower that blooms knows that it will rise from the dead in the next season's sun, breathe, feel again the dew and rain. Therefore these little ones make no such tragedy as we do of death.” KnowsFeelsLittlesLongFormSufferingNextSunFlowerSpeechRainSeasonsTragedyMereSilentCalmBreatheDewHysteriaDo Not FearLife Or DeathPower Of Speech Author:Corra May Harris
“Invitations to speak upon public occasions are among my most grievous embarrassments. Why is it inferred that one is or can be a public speaker because she has written a book? Writing is a very private business. I do not know any other occupation which requires so much privacy unless it is a life of prayer or a life of crime.” KnowsWritingBookSpeakPrayerWrittenCrimeOccasionsPrivacyOccupationSpeakersInvitationsEmbarrassmentBook Writing Author:Corra May Harris
“As I have grown older I am more and more convinced that I have not grown up, that my powers have not come to me, not my real wisdom to do and achieve the right thoughts. I lack some dear grace. I cannot seem to steady down and get the single eye. There is a curriculum in living in which I have not studied. This may be happiness. I want to know it; I should feel better prepared for immortality. I do not wish to arrive fagged at last and a bit slipshod in the spirit, as if I had a hard time all my mortal life. It is not complimentary to God.” IfsKnowsWantFeelsShouldMayRealHardSeemsEyeLastsSpiritWishBitsGraceAchieveDown AndPreparedDearConvincedMortalsImmortalityHard TimesSteadyFeel BetterCurriculumReal WisdomSingle Eye Author:Corra May Harris
