Olive Schreiner - Life Quotes

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My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those that are sad.

Olive Schreiner
We have always borne part of the weight of war, and the major part... Men have made boomerangs, bows, swords, or guns with which to destroy one another; we have made the men who destroyed and were destroyed!... We pay the first cost on all human life.

Olive Schreiner
Greatness is to take the common things of life, and walk truly among them.

Olive Schreiner
There is a love that begins in the head, and goes down to the heart, and grows slowly; but it lasts till death, and asks less than it gives. There is another love, that blots out wisdom, that is sweet with the sweetness of life and bitter with the bitterness of death, lasting for an hour; but it is worth having lived a whole life for that hour.

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Marriage has been a very rich and beautiful development of my life. Month by month as we live together we seem to come nearer to each other; and to feel a more complete fellowship. I do not feel that it in any way fetters or narrows my world: — it seems rather to enlarge it.

Olive Schreiner
The secret of success is concentration, wherever there has been a great life, or a great work, that has gone before. Taste everything a little, look at everything a little; but live for one thing.

Olive Schreiner
I think if I was dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.

Olive Schreiner