Hortense Odlum Quotes

12 quotes in 210 categories

• Adventure, without it, why live?
• Oh, if I had only known, if I had only been ready, our lives can really be the great adventure we so passionately want them…
• Living each day as a preparation for the next is an exciting way to live. Looking forward to something is much more fun than looking…
• No life, if it is properly realized, is without cosmic importance.
• If a person goes to his job with a firm determination to give of himself the best of which he is capable, that job no…
• How many wives have been forced by the death of well-intentioned but too protective husbands to face reality late in life, bewildered and frightened because…
• It seemed pathetic and terrible to me and it still does, that men and women work eight hours a day at jobs that bring them…
• One of the greatest satisfactions one can ever have, comes from the knowledge that he can do some one thing superlatively well.
• With only one life to live we can't afford to live it only for itself. Somehow we must each for himself, find the way in…
• Persons who insist to themselves that under one set of conditions only can they lead interesting and satisfying lives lay themselves open to bitter disappointments…
• It is not serving, but servility, that is menial.
• No life if it is properly realized is without its cosmic importance.

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