It is never any good dwelling on goodbyes. It is not the being together it prolongs, it is the parting.
—Elizabeth Bibesco
Endurance is frequently a form of indecision.
—Elizabeth Bibesco
Topics: Self-Discovery
Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.
—Elizabeth Bibesco
Topics: Charity, Giving, Service, Blessings
Influencing people is dangerous. Their acts and thoughts become your illegitimate children. You can’t get away from them and Heaven knows what they mayn’t grow up into.
—Elizabeth Bibesco
Topics: Influence
He is invariably in a hurry. Being in a hurry is one of the tributes he pays to life.
—Elizabeth Bibesco
Topics: Haste
Irony is the hygiene of the mind.
—Elizabeth Bibesco
Topics: The Mind, Mind
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