In my early life, and probably even today, it is not sufficiently understood that a child’s education should include at least a rudimentary grasp of religion, sex, and money. Without a basic knowledge of these three primary facts in a normal human being’s life—subjects which stir the emotions, create events and opportunities, and if they do not wholly decide must greatly influence an individual’s personality—no human being’s education can have a safe foundation.
—Phyllis Bottome
Topics: Education
Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.
—Phyllis Bottome
Topics: Truth
There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
—Phyllis Bottome
There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them.
—Phyllis Bottome
Topics: Difficulties, Difficulty
Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.
—Phyllis Bottome
Topics: Change
Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it—and a greater fool if you count upon it.
—Phyllis Bottome
Topics: Luck
To be in the right is often an expensive business.
—Phyllis Bottome
Topics: Right
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