Phyllis Bottome Quotes

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them.

Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.

Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.

Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it — and a greater fool if you count upon it.

There's nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final.

When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.

It is very a dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.

To see a shadow and think it is a tree that is a pity; but to see a tree and to think it a shadow can be fatal.

When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is.