“Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.”

Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.

Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.

But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.

And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.

Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

I can always live by my pen.

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

It’s such a happiness when good people get together.

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.

Each found her greatest safety in silence.

I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.

Music connects us all to each other, and I think that’s just magical and beautiful, and I need that in my life. Heartbreak is the pain of separation. To me, the cure that music offers and that dancing offers is complete integration.

The cures for many cancers, if not most cancers, exist. But they are not being offered to the patient who has cancer….

Time cures you first, and then it kills you.

Forget health clinics and gyms. Sex is the best cure. One good night of sex and your problems are gone.

I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.

There’s another advantage to being poor – a doctor will cure you faster.

Absence – that common cure of love.

Youth is a malady of which one becomes cured a little every day.