“Sometimes it seems to me that God 's way of dealing with me is not to let me see much of my friends, those who are most to me in the spiritual life, lest I should forget that the invisible bond is the only reality. That is the only way I can reconcile myself to the inevitable separations of life and death.” WayShouldI CanSometimesRealitySeemsSpiritualForgetMy FriendsLet MeSeparationInvisibleInevitableLife And DeathSpiritual LifeReconcile Author:Lucy Larcom
“When I heard that there were artists, I wished I could some time be one. If I could only make a rose bloom on paper, I thought I should be happy! Or if I could at last succeed in drawing the outline of winter-stripped boughs as I saw them against the sky, it seemed to me that I should be willing to spend years in trying.” IfsShouldTryingYearsLastsArtistSawsHeardSkyWillingSucceedPaperRoseWinterDrawingIf I CouldOutlines Author:Lucy Larcom
“It is one of the most beautiful facts in this human existence of ours, that we remember the earliest and freshest part of it most vividly. Doubtless it was meant that our childhood should live on in us forever.” ShouldHumansFactsBeautifulRememberExistenceForeverChildhoodOur ChildrenHuman Existence Author:Lucy Larcom
“The first real unhappiness I remember to have felt was when some one told me, one day, that I did not love God. I insisted, almost tearfully, that I did; but I was told that if I did truly love Him I should always be good. I knew I was not that, and the feeling of sudden orphanage came over me like a bewildering cloud.” IfsShouldFirstsRealFeelingsRememberFeltOne DayCloudsBe GoodGod LoveUnhappinessOrphanage Book:A New England girlhood Source: A New England girlhood
