Life takes hold of us with strong hands and makes us greater than we thought. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
the encounter with death is the great turning-point in the lives of those who live on. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
History is worth reading when it tells us truly what the attitude toward life was in the past. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
...there are two ways to meet life; you may refuse to care until indifference becomes a habit, a defensive armor, and you… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
Everyone bowed to that unwritten law of family life which ordains that, in the long run, everyone submerges his personal preference in… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
the most elementary experience of life proves that the effects of compulsion last exactly as long as the physical or moral club… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
There's no healthy life possible without some sensual feeling between the husband and wife, but there's nothing in the world more awful… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
don't let anything make you believe that there are not as many decent men in the world as women, and they're just… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
“If we would give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want out of life that we give to… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
“How he loathed his life-long slavery to the clock, that pervasive intimate negative opposed to every spontaneous impulse. "It's the clock that… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
Compared with more emotional types, Vermonters seem to have few passions. But those they have are great and burning. The greatest is… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
Vermont tradition is based on the idea that group life should leave each person as free as possible to arrange his own… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
Life takes hold of us with strong hands and makes us greater than we thought. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
“If we would give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want out of life that we give to the question… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
Compared with more emotional types, Vermonters seem to have few passions. But those they have are great and burning. The greatest is their conviction… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
On New Year's Day every calendar, large and small, has the same number of dates. But we soon learn that the years are of… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnessary. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
“How he loathed his life-long slavery to the clock, that pervasive intimate negative opposed to every spontaneous impulse. "It's the clock that is the… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
Father sticks to it that anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
Professional psychologists seem to think that they are the only people who make sense out of human actions. The rest of us know that… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
one reason we haven't any national art is because we have too much magnificence. All our capacity for admiration is used up on the… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
You can't wish a body any worse luck than to get what he wants. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
