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
Topics: Wishes, Wisdom, Adversity
What is life, but one long risk?
—Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Topics: Risk
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
Topics: Age, Aging
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
Topics: Goals, Carpe-diem, Aspirations
A mother is not a person to lean on but person to make leaning unnecessary.
—Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.
—Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Topics: Health, Doctors
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