“life is a tragic mystery. We are pierced and driven by laws we only half understand, we find that the lesson we learn again and again is that of accepting heroic helplessness.” LifeLawLife IsHalfAcceptingMysteryLessonsDrivenTragicHeroicAgain And AgainHelplessness Book:Measure of My Days Source: Measure of My Days
“She [a mother] never outgrows the burden of love, and to the end she carries the weight of hope for those she bore. Oddly, very oddly, she is forever surprised and even faintly wronged that her sons and daughters are just people, for many mothers hope and half expect that their new-born child will make the world better, will somehow be a redeemer. Perhaps they are right, and they can believe that the rare quality they glimpsed in the child is active in the burdened adult.” PeopleWorldBelieveChildrenEndsMotherBornHalfQualityForeverSonDaughterAdultsWeightBurdenActiveCarrieBoresRedeemerSon And DaughterWronged Author:Florida Scott-Maxwell
“Order, cleanliness, seemliness make a structure that is half support, half ritual, and - if it does not create it - maintains decency.” IfsDoeOrderHalfSupportStructureRitualDishesDecencyCleanliness Book:Measure of My Days Source: Measure of My Days