If we could learn how to utilize all the intelligence and patent good will children are born with, instead of ignoring much of it - why - there might be enough to go around! There might be enough to solve our alarming human problems, to put an end to poverty, to stop waging wars.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Categorized in : Children War Patents

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

mothers-day family funny

No Vermont town ever let anybody in it starve.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

vermont towns

Compared with more emotional types, Vermonters seem to have few passions. But those they have are great and burning. The greatest is their conviction that without freedom human life is not worth living.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

burning passion emotional

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

spiritual evil food

Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

nursing eggs thinking

What a fearfully distracting, perplexing and heart-searching business it is to live.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

heart

perhaps all this modern ferment of what's known as 'social conscience' or 'civic responsibility' isn't a result of the sense of duty, but of the old, old craving for beauty.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

modern responsibility beauty

Vermont is the only place in America where I ever hear thrift spoken of with respect.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

vermont thrift america

The actions of a human being, even of fifteen months of age, may not be without significance to a sympathetic eye.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

fifteen eye age

...there are two ways to meet life; you may refuse to care until indifference becomes a habit, a defensive armor, and you are safe - but bored. Or you can care greatly, live greatly, until life breaks you on its wheel.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

armor bored two

Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

fighting justice mean

If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

inspirational love life

Libraries are the vessels in which the seed corn for the future is stored.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

seeds library corn

it was always insolent for a common man to take a chair in the presence of a lady - the word LADY, we may be sure, capitalized in her mind, and denoting not sex but rank.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

mind men sex

What's the use of inventing a better system as long as there just aren't enough folks with sense to go around?

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

use enough long

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

nice humorous funny

there's no such thing as luck. Nothing ever just happens to anybody. ... nothing can really happen to a person till he lets it happen.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

no-such-thing-as-luck luck persons

A mom isn't an individual to lean on, but a person to generate leaning needless.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

individual mom persons

help that is not positively necessary is a hindrance to a growing organism.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

positively growing helping

There is no human relationship more intimate than that of nurse and patient, one in which the essentials of character are more rawly revealed.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

essentials nurse character