Margaret Lee Runbeck Short Quotes

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We can always explain away miracles — afterward.

Margaret Lee Runbeck
When the great joys are stilled, the minor ones must sing.

Margaret Lee Runbeck
There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Margaret Lee Runbeck
Strangers... are just your friends that you don't know yet.

Margaret Lee Runbeck
If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Margaret Lee Runbeck
Giving is a necessity sometimes... more urgent, indeed, than having.

Margaret Lee Runbeck
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

Margaret Lee Runbeck
If work is not its own reward, there comes no other pay worth having.

Margaret Lee Runbeck
Prayers, I have no doubt, differ as widely as love-making or fun-making.

Margaret Lee Runbeck
You can't defeat a praying man. He finds his answers everywhere he looks.

Margaret Lee Runbeck
Miracles may be phosphorescent, so to speak; only to be seen in darkness.

Margaret Lee Runbeck
One person never tells anything about another person. Only about herself.

Margaret Lee Runbeck
I may not believe in God. But I do believe in the people who believe in God.

Margaret Lee Runbeck
You can't cheat a praying man. If he comes to hear a sermon, he hears a sermon.

Margaret Lee Runbeck
To succeed in anything, one always works a little harder than one feels possible.

Margaret Lee Runbeck
Memory is a slick politician who will support either side of the argument loyally.

Margaret Lee Runbeck
Words are sometimes the most expensive and dangerous luxuries between the generations.

Margaret Lee Runbeck
Apology is a lovely perfume; it can transform the clumsiest moment into a gracious gift.

Margaret Lee Runbeck
We are good friends because we never need forgive each other the gaucherie of eloquence.

Margaret Lee Runbeck
A man does not steal from one victim only, but from everyone who comes near to the theft.

Margaret Lee Runbeck
The best things in life are secret. And must stay that way, until we find them for ourselves.

Margaret Lee Runbeck
Fairst's way is not to rush at you with an outstretched hand. His chestnuts wait within burrs.

Margaret Lee Runbeck
Happiness is a habit, to be established early. It is like the magnetic beam by which the pilots fly.

Margaret Lee Runbeck
If prayers are going to be answered at all, human beings probably have to answer them for each other.

Margaret Lee Runbeck
Even when we love people, we're fairly philosophical about their suffering and what it will bring them!

Margaret Lee Runbeck
Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before.

Margaret Lee Runbeck
I showed no surprise, for my first principle of getting along with the young is never to be amazed at anything.

Margaret Lee Runbeck
Nobody has ever written a juvenile book on 'How to win friends and influence people.' Children are born knowing.

Margaret Lee Runbeck
There is nothing that so harasses an architect giving birth to a house as the presence of the prospective owners.

Margaret Lee Runbeck
I believe anyone who momentarily perceives the Absolute will never again need any other circumstance for happiness.

Margaret Lee Runbeck