Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.
Olive SchreinerThere are some of us who in after years say to Fate, 'Now deal us your hardest blow, give us what you will; but let us never again suffer as we suffered when we were children.' The barb in the arrow of childhood's suffering is this: its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.
Olive SchreinerWhen the curtain falls no one is ready
Olive SchreinerWe have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World.
Olive SchreinerThis dirty little world full of confusion, and the blue rag, stretched overhead for a sky, is so low we could touch it with our hand.
Olive SchreinerI think,' said Lyndall, 'that he is like a thorn-tree, which grows up very quietly, without any one's caring for it, and one day suddenly breaks out into yellow blossoms.
Olive SchreinerAnd she said, in a voice strangely unlike her own, 'I see the vision of a poor weak soul striving after good. It was not cut short; and, in the end, it learnt, through tears and much pain, that holiness is an infinite compassion for others; that greatness is to take the common things of life and walk truly among them; that' - she moved her white hand and laid it on her forehead - 'happiness is a great love and much serving. It was not cut short; and it loved what it had learnt - it loved
Olive SchreinerNo woman has the right to marry a man if she has to bend herself out of shape for him. She might wish to, but she could never be to him with all her passionate endeavor what the other woman could be to him without trying. Character will dominate over all and will come out at last.
Olive SchreinerMy feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.
Olive SchreinerTags: life purpose living comforting
القليل من البكاء، القليل من التملق، القليل من إذلال الذات، القليل من الاستخدام الحذِر لميزاتنا، وبعدها سيقول أحد الرجال: "هيا، كوني زوجتي!"
مع المظهر الحسن والشباب، يصبح الزواج سهل المنال. فهناك ما يكفي من الرجال؛ إلا أن المرأة التي تبيع نفسها، حتى في مقابل خاتم واسم جديد، ليست في حاجة إلى أن تُبعد تنورتها عن أي مخلوق في الشارع. فكلاهما يأكلان عيشًا بنفس الطريقة.
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