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
Myrtle Reed quotes about
sorrow world way
There isn't a new sorrow in the world -- they're all old ones -- but we can all find new happiness if we look in the right way.
years work-out problem
When the years bring wisdom, one learns to leave many problems to their own working out.
heart matter ache
... no matter how one's heart aches, one can do the necessary things and do them well.
spiritual hurt way
When things hurt us, we're merely on our way to another spiritual environment.
work blindness inseparable
I had thought, in my blindness, that the great things were the easiest to do, but now I see that drudgery is an inseparable part of everything worth while, and the more worth while it is, the more drudgery is involved.
sorry women feelings
Married and unmarried women waste a great deal of time in feeling sorry for each other.
vanity people details
It is personal vanity of the most flagrant type which intrudes itself, unasked, into other people's affairs. There are few of us who do not feel capable of ordering the daily lives of others, down to the most minute detail.
punishment law may
Legislation may at times be disobeyed, but never law, for the breaking brings swift punishment of its own.
negative morality conventions
The conventions of society are all in the interests of morality. If you're conventional, you'll be good, in a negative sense, of course.
bird joy
A bird is joy incarnate.
death people virtue
Death is the advertisement, at the end of an autobiography, wherein people discover its virtues.
money may your-best-friend
Money may not be your best friend, but it's the quickest to act, and seems to be favorably recognized in more places than most friends are.
dream fashion heart
Five golden years, Heart of Mine, have we walked the way of life together, and there is not an hour I would have changed; there is no moment when I would have you other than you have been. It is the fashion these days, I know, to say that love ends at the altar, but it is not so. You and I have found the old dream of the world divinely true. It is neither a poet's fancy nor a trick of the imagination, but a thing of fadeless and unending beauty.
turns corners uncertainty
when you can't see straight ahead, it's because you're about to turn a corner.