“I learned what education really is: the penetrating deeper and rising higher into life, as well as making continually wider explorations; the rounding of the whole human being out of its nebulous elements into form, as planets and suns are rounded, until they give out safe and steady light. This makes the process a infinite one, not possible to be completed at any school.” GivingHumansWellsWholeLightSchoolFormProcessHuman BeingsEducationSunPlanetsHigherSafeElementsInfiniteDeeperRisingExplorationSteady Book:A New England Girlhood, Outlined from Memory Source: A New England Girlhood, Outlined from Memory
“It is a conquest when we can lift ourselves above the annoyances of circumstances over which we have no control; but it is a greater victory when we can make those circumstances our helpers,--when we can appreciate the good there is in them. It has often seemed to me as if Life stood beside me, looking me in the face, and saying, "Child, you must learn to like me in the form in which you see me, before I can offer myself to you in any other aspect.” IfsLifeChildrenI CanFacesFormGreaterVictoryCircumstancesOffersAspectAppreciateLike MeLiftsHardshipConquestAnnoyanceHelpers Book:A New England girlhood Source: A New England girlhood
“If an apple blossom or a ripe apple could tell its own story, it would be, still more than its own, the story of the sunshine that smiled upon it, of the winds that whispered to it, of the birds that sang around it, of the storms that visited it, and of the motherly tree that held it and fed it until its petals were unfolded and its form developed.” IfsStillsStoriesWould BeFormTreeWindBirdStormApplesSunshineFedsRipePetalsMotherly Book:A New England girlhood Source: A New England girlhood
“Our relatives form the natural setting of our childhood. We understand ourselves best and are best understood by others through the persons who came nearest to us in our earliest years.” YearsPersonsFormNaturalChildhoodUnderstoodOur ChildrenSettingSettings Book:A New England girlhood Source: A New England girlhood
“We were not meant to mask ourselves before our fellow-beings, but to be, through our human forms, true and clear utterances of the spirit within. Since God gave us these bodies, they must have been given us as guides to Him and revealers of Him.” HumansHas BeensBodyFormSpiritGivenClearFellowsGuidesMaskUtteranceHuman Form Book:The Unseen Friend Source: The Unseen Friend
