“I love truth, although I shall die hating mere facts, because they are misleading.” Quote by Corra May Harris
“If you wish to collect complimentary material for a record of yourself, never appeal to your relations. They may be proud of you as an asset to the family name, but they have a gift for remembering your gawky period privately, the follies and faults you committed and have forgotten. You may have come up in the world with a laurel on your brow, but if you go back home forty years later wearing two laurels on your brow, and a noble expression, they will miss the point.” IfsWorldYearsMayTwoHomeRememberNamesWishFamilyRecordsMissingExpressionMaterialsProudPeriodsRelationFaultsForgottenCome UpCommittedNobleAppealsFollyFortyAssetsBe ProudBack HomeBrowsLaurelsProud Of YouFamily Name Author:Corra May Harris
“if one's natural feelings are suppressed long enough one develops supernatural feelings and feels surer of having a soul.” IfsFeelsLongSoulEnoughFeelingsNaturalNatural Feelings Author:Corra May Harris
“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 was not too stupid to learn, but too smart. Some instinct must have warned me that a woman accomplished in the domestic arts is frequently enslaved by them.” ArtStupidSmartArt IsInstinctAccomplishedHousework Author:Corra May Harris
“I remember being very smart, which is a form of stupidity. I try not to remember it, but it occurs to me that I may have felt intellectual. I entertained views too noble or too bitter to be true. I must have done some soul-stretching of my mental neck.” TryingMaySoulDoneRememberFormFeltViewsIntellectualSmartStupidityNobleBitterBeing TrueNecksStretchingVery Smart Author:Corra May Harris
“Maybe I shall never achieve happiness, but one thing I have had - the terrible wisdom of love.” One ThingAchieveTerrible Author:Corra May Harris
“one trouble with all the churches is that they have too many incurable saints in them, men and women who pray too much and do too little, who cannot forget their own selfish salvation enough to look after other people's without feeling their own spiritual pulse all the time they are doing it. Of late I've sometimes suspected that it is nearly as debilitating to stay in the church all the time as it would be to stay in a hospital all the time.” PeopleMenLooksLittlesSometimesEnoughFeelingsWould BeSpiritualReligionChurchForgetToo MuchTroublePrayingLateMen And WomenSalvationSaintSelfishHospitalsPulse Author:Corra May Harris
“sanity, in my opinion, is an achievement. I have seen very few well-balanced people in my life who were not dunces.” PeopleWellsOpinionAchievementSanityBalancedDunces Author:Corra May Harris
“I believe if we can wait long enough that every honorable sorrow will become a kind of joy.” IfsBelieveKindLongEnoughJoyI BelieveWaitingSorrowHonorable Author:Corra May Harris