The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.
—Helen Hayes
Topics: Life and Living
From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover you have wings.
—Helen Hayes
Topics: Laughter, Books
The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity—love. And the story of a love is not important—what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
—Helen Hayes
Topics: Love
Perhaps we have been misguided into taking too much responsibility from our children, leaving them too little room for discovery
—Helen Hayes
Topics: Responsibility
Yes, I have doubted. I have wandered off the path. I have been lost. But I always returned. … My faith has wavered but has saved me.
—Helen Hayes
Topics: Faith
All through the long winter, I dream of my garden. On the first day of spring, I dig my fingers deep into the soft earth. I can feel its energy, and my spirits soar.
—Helen Hayes
Topics: Spring, Gardening
We live in a very tense society. We are pulled apart… and we all need to learn how to pull ourselves together…. I think that at least part of the answer lies in solitude.
—Helen Hayes
Topics: Solitude
If you rest, you rust.
—Helen Hayes
Topics: Leisure, Rest
Everybody starts at the top, and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment, however, is still achieved through a long, slow climb and self-discipline.
—Helen Hayes
Topics: Accomplishment, Discipline
We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.
—Helen Hayes
Topics: Heroes/Heroism, Heroes, Heroism
My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that’s nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.
—Helen Hayes
Topics: Achievement, Achieving, Secrets of Success, Accomplishment, Success & Failure
Childhood is a short season.
—Helen Hayes
Topics: Childhood
Age is not important unless you’re a cheese.
—Helen Hayes
Topics: Aging, Age
When travelling with someone, take large doses of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee
—Helen Hayes
Topics: Tolerance
Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn’t original sin. He’s born with the tragedy that he has to grow up. That he has to leave the nest, the security, and go out to do battle. He has to lose everything that is lovely and fight for a new loveliness of his own making, and it’s a tragedy. A lot of people don’t have the courage to do it.
—Helen Hayes
Topics: Growth
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