If we love-and-serve an ideal we reach backward in time to its inception and forward to its consummation. To grow is sometimes to ...hurt; but who would return to smallness?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ours is the old, old story of every uprising race or class or order. The work of elevation must be wrought by ourselves or not at ...all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... religion (ought to be if it isn't) a great deal more than mere gratification of the instinct for worship linked with the strai...ght-teaching of irreproachable credos. Religion must be life made true; and life is action, growth, development--begun now and ending never.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice,... and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Until the sky is the limit [for women], as it is for men, men as well as women will suffer, because all society is affected when h...alf of it is denied equal opportunity for full development.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... work is only part of a man's life; play, family, church, individual and group contacts, educational opportunities, the intelli...gent exercise of citizenship, all play a part in a well-rounded life. Workers are men and women with potentialities for mental and spiritual development as well as for physical health. We are paying the price today of having too long sidestepped all that this means to the mental, moral, and spiritual health of our nation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Emancipation should make it possible for woman to be human in the truest sense. Everything within her that craves assertion and ac...tivity should reach its fullest expression; all artificial barriers should be broken, and the road towards greater freedom cleared of every trace of centuries of submission and slavery.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every individual, like a statue, develops in his life the laws of harmony, integrity, and freedom; or those of deformity, immorali...ty, and bondage. Whether we wish to or not, we are all drawing our own pictures in the lives we are living ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Miss U.S.A. is in the same graveyard that [Amanda Jones] the twelve-year-old is. Where the sixteen-year-old is. All the past selve...s. There comes a time when you have to bury those selves because you've grown into another one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It's about learning your craft. That's a wonderful thing--especially with today's consumerism and instant gratification. You can't... buy that. It's about making decisions, corrections, choices. I don't think it's so much about becoming a tennis player. It's about becoming a person.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »