How insensitive, inartistic, unscientific, and ungracious it is to take anything for granted!
Muriel LesterConsider yourself not ready to start the day, ill equipped, unprepared to mix with your fellows, until you have spent at least fifteen minutes in prayer. Count it as much a social necessity as washing.
Muriel Lestera victor's peace is usually vindictive and stirs up a passion for revenge a generation or so later.
Muriel LesterI was trying to make them face their fears. Youth spends so much energy trying to forget them. There's the fear of failure in examinations, fear of sex, fear of not getting a job, fear of unpopularity, fear of appearing naïve. Youth discovers many bunkholes in which to hide when frightened. They are mostly unhealthy, none of them bombproof.
Muriel Lester