Life takes hold of us with strong hands and makes us greater than we thought.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher...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 FisherHistory is worth reading when it tells us truly what the attitude toward life was in the past.
Dorothy Canfield Fisherperhaps 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 Fisherone reason we haven't any national art is because we have too much magnificence. All our capacity for admiration is used up on the splendor of palace-like railway stations and hotels. Our national tympanum is so deafened by that blare of sumptuousness that we have no ears for the still, small voice of beauty.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher