Myrtle Reed
Myrtle Reed
Myrtle Reedwas an American author, poet, journalist, and philanthropist. She wrote a number of bestsellers and even published a series of cookbooks under the pseudonym Olive Green...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth27 September 1874
CountryUnited States of America
trouble explaining explaining-things
It saves trouble to be conventional, for you're not always explaining things.
summer rocks discovery
The river itself portrays humanity precisely, with its tortuous windings, its accumulation of driftwood, its unsuspected depths, and its crystalline shallows, singing in the Summer sun. Barriers may be built across its path, but they bring only power, as the conquering of an obstacle is always sure to do. Sometimes when the rocks and stone-clad hills loom large ahead, and eternity itself would be needed to carve a passage, there is an easy way around. The discovery of it makes the river sing with gladness and turns the murmurous deeps to living water, bright with ripples and foam.
memorable thinking clothes
Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want.
wisdom acceptance lifetime
It seems to take a lifetime for us to learn that wisdom consists largely in a graceful acceptance of things that do not immediately concern us.
kindness fighting years
Youth asks no greater privilege than to fight its own battles. It is mistaken kindness to shield - it weakens one in the years to come.
forgiveness house understanding
There is only one path which leads to the house of forgiveness - that of understanding.
memories good-memories forget
A good forgettery is a happier possession than a good memory.
flower magic
each separate flower has a magic all its own.
failure loss reality
All we can do in this world is the thing that seems to us the best. We have no concern with the results, except as a guide for the future, and sometimes, years afterward, we see that what seemed like a bitter loss was, in reality, gain.
dog world fairs
the world has been fair cruel if you've never known the love of a dog!
people world mouths
There is a great deal of trouble in this world which is not caused by people keeping their mouths shut.
heartbroken men dating
Womankind suffers from three delusions: marriage will reform a man, a rejected lover is heartbroken for life, and if the other women were only out of the way, he would come back.
believe fire heaven
If we could only use other folks' experience, this here world would be heaven in about three generations, but we're so constructed that we never believe fire'll burn till we poke our own fingers into it to see. Other folks' scars don't go no ways at all toward convincin' us.
magic ifs
As if by magic, the love of the many comes with the love of the one.