The same soil is good for men and for trees. A man's health requires as many acres of meadow to his prospect as his farm does load...s of muck.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[The health plan was] constructed to be deconstructed. [Instead,] it was described as an ultimatum by our opponents and therefore ...used to undermine the process of reaching agreement.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Some fear that if parents start listening to their own wants and needs they will neglect their children. It is our belief that chi...ldren are in fact far less likely to be neglected when their parents' needs--for support, for friendship, for decent work, for health care, for learning, for play, for time alone--are being met.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If God causes man to be sick, sickness must be good, and its opposite, health, must be evil, for all that He makes is good and wil...l stand forever. If the transgression of God's law produces sickness, it is right to be sick; and we cannot if we would, and should not if we could, annul the decrees of wisdom. It is the transgression of a belief of mortal mind, not of a law of matter nor of divine Mind, which causes the belief of sickness. The remedy is Truth, not matter,--the truth that disease is unreal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The true novel wrestles on the edge of understanding, lying about on all sides desperately, for every sort of experience, pressing... into use every flash of intuition or correspondence, trying to fuse together the crudest of materials, and the humblest, which the higher arts can't include. But it is precisely here, where the writer fights with the raw, the intractable, that poetry is born. Poetry, that is, of the novel: appropriate to it. The Story of an African Farm is a poetic novel; and when one has done with the "plot" and the characters, that is what remains: an endeavor, a kind of hunger, that passionate desire for growth and understanding, which is the deepest pulse of human beings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The only trouble here is they won't let us study enough. They are so afraid we shall break down and you know the reputation of the... College is at stake, for the question is, can girls get a college degree without ruining their health?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...it's dynamite to spend future earnings. I have had a taste of it myself, and it's mighty bitter. A debt is a debt, whether it's... margins or mortgages; and debts are all the same, no matter how you try to camouflage 'em. You never get much out of 'em except trouble. On the farm or in Wall Street, if you use the other fellow's money, it costs you a lot more than it's worth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Infirmity doth still neglect all office Whereto our health is bound; we are not ourselves... When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind To suffer with the body.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »