Candace Wheeler quotes

“Blessed be those souls who are glad! They are a salve for sorrow and fatigue. A sun in days of darkness, a joy in sorrow, a ray of heaven shining through the uncertainness of earth.”
-- Candace Wheeler

Source : Candace Wheeler (1918). “Yesterdays in a Busy Life”

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“If the physical perfection of childhood could last, what a possesssion it would be for humanity!”
-- Candace Wheeler

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“one of the most perfect and unfailing joys of life is planting. It is the creative joy felt by God ...”
-- Candace Wheeler

Source : Candace Wheeler (1918). “Yesterdays in a Busy Life”

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“And then came a time when I could no longer say 'We,' and I found myself in a lonesome land where no one remembered that I had ever been young, or called me by my given name.”
-- Candace Wheeler

Source : Candace Wheeler (1918). “Yesterdays in a Busy Life”

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“perpetuity in a home is a blanket for the cold years that come with age.”
-- Candace Wheeler

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“Brown people and black people and red people swarmed through our great halls, until those who were white looked simply faded-out human beings beside them. Indeed, I came to see that white is not a color in skin any more than in textiles, and if it had not quality, it had no value even for humanity. I saw that color in skin had a certain advantage in strength and warmth as a means of beauty.”
-- Candace Wheeler

Source : Candace Wheeler (1918). “Yesterdays in a Busy Life”

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“A great magazine is sort of a net for ability ...”
-- Candace Wheeler

Source : Candace Wheeler (1918). “Yesterdays in a Busy Life”

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“Peace is the wait of the patient soul.”
-- Candace Wheeler

Source : Candace Wheeler (1918). “Yesterdays in a Busy Life”

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“Poor, successful, fallible Republican party! If it could only have kept the purity of the patriot impulse of which it was born!”
-- Candace Wheeler

Source : Candace Wheeler (1918). “Yesterdays in a Busy Life”

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“Forget yourself and live for others, for It is more blessed to give than to receive.”

Source : Thomas Chalmers (1848). “Select Works of Thomas Chalmers ...: Comprising His Miscellanies; Lectures on Romans; Astronomical, Commercial and Congregational Discourses”, p.153

“That's the funny thing about America--the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others. I've had my share of angels.”

“I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net. Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care ... it is another story altogether.”

“Abu Dharr once described the people of the world, says, "They breed what will they ultimately bury, they build what will eventually be destroy, they hold firm to what is emphemeral, and they forsake what is everlasting. Hence, blessed are the two cries people abominate most: Death and poverty.”

“We prefer one room in Rangoon to six in Boston. We feel that we are highly blessed.”

“Beloved, have you ever thought that someday you will not have anything to try you, or anyone to vex you again? There will be no opportunity in heaven to learn or to show the spirit of patience, forbearance, and longsuffering. If you are to practice these things, it must be now.”

“June suns, you cannot store them To warm the winter's cold, The lad that hopes for heaven Shall fill his mouth with mould.”

“There are those who say that children make a rich man poor. No, they have it backward. Children make a poor man rich. A rich man can't take his riches to heaven, but I'm taking my children”

“That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.”

Source : A Shropshire Lad no. 40, l. 5 (1896)

“If you want to shine like the sun, first burn like the sun.”