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
There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them.
—Phyllis Bottome
Topics: Difficulties, Difficulty
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
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
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
To be in the right is often an expensive business.
—Phyllis Bottome
Topics: Right
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