Kate Douglas Wiggin

“She was a child of extremes, now in the depths of despair, now on the crest of a wave of hope.”

“There is a kind of magic in the distance.”

“Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.”

“Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.”

“Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.”

“The story of any one man's real experience finds its startling parallel in that of every one of us.”

“To be an enthusiast is not to be a crank, it is to be a hero.”

“The joy of all joys is the joy that is shared.”

“When you're a pansy, you must live up to it.”

“Pick your friendships, not for their utility, but for their sweetness and their beauty.”

“The soul grows into lovely habits as easily as into ugly ones.”

“Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility.”