Ruth Draper Quotations

Aren't the artists brave to go out and paint a sea as rough as that? I don't see how he kept his canvas dry.

As a matter of fact, you know I am rather sorry you should see the garden now, because, alas! it is not looking at its best. Oh, it doesn't compare to what it was last year.

You see -- he's got a perfectly new idea. He never sees his patients. He's not interested in individuals, he prefers to treat a crowd. And he's organized these mass cures . . . And he cures thirty thousand people every Thursday.

And as for my poor Glubjullas, they never came up at all! . . . I can't think why, because I generally have great luck with my Glubjullas.

He said I was the most sensitive person he had ever seen- that I belonged to the hyper-hyper type and we rarely survive!

Life is too wonderful, too full, too short and strength too limited to contain its wonder.

Try to look at everything through the eyes of a child.

Courage, enthusiasm, awareness -- if only one can keep these to the end.

... accepting and feeling sympathy and love is not so healing as giving it.

... as long as we go on loving and working life is worth while.

the trouble with success is - it takes all your time. And you can't do the things you really want to do!

all my wealth is in my memories.