Lilian Whiting - The World Beautiful (1894)

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The individual who cultivates grievances, and who is perpetually exacting explanations of his assumed wrongs, can only be ignored, and left to the education of time and of development.... One does not argue or contend with the foul miasma that settles over stagnant water; one leaves it and climbs to a higher region, where the air is pure and the sunshine fair.

Lilian Whiting

Service is the joy-giving factor in daily life. It is as spontaneous as light, as subtle as electricity, as exhilarating as sunshine. It exists primarily as a spiritual attitude. It lies in the constant recognition of the brotherhood of humanity toward each and all with whom we come in contact.

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It is far better to appreciate and not to possess, than to possess and not to appreciate.

Lilian Whiting

True socialism is the equalization of all privileges. The power to take advantage of them, -- that is another matter...

Lilian Whiting