15 ordspråk av Dorothy Dix

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Dorothy Dix föddes den November 18th 1870 och dog den 16 December 1951
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 (A girl's) chief ambition then, as now, was to get married and have a home and children.

 Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.

 For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

 Happiness is largely a matter of self-hypnotism. You can think yourself happy or you can think yourself miserable.

 I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.

 It is a queer thing, but imaginary troubles are harder to bear than actual ones.

 It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that makes them little sisters to all the world.

 Nobody wants to kiss when they are hungry.

 So many persons think divorce a panacea for every ill, who find out, when they try it, that the remedy is worse than the disease

 The jealous bring down the curse they fear upon their own heads

 The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age.

 There isn't a single human being who hasn't plenty to cry over, and the trick is to make the laughs outweigh the tears.

 We are never happy until we learn to laugh at ourselves.

 You never saw a very busy person who was unhappy.

 You never saw a very busy person who was unhappy.



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