38 Quotes by Faith Baldwin

"The shadow of fear and uncertainty lies over most of us; for us the future seems far from being as clear and open as we believed it would be."

"We may differ widely in environments, education, learning, knowledge, or lack of it, and in our personalities, our likes and dislikes. But if we set ourselves the task, we'll find a meeting place somehow and somewhere."

"I think one should forgive and remember .... If you forgive and forget in the usual sense, you're just driving what you remember into the subconscious; it stays there and festers. But to look, even regularly, upon what you remember and know you've forgiven is achievement."

"Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness."

"Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees."

"I've always thought that the most perfect fate which could befall any woman would be to be born a rich widow."

"Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations."

"There’s nothing like fishing to pass the time and to incline toward a sort of magnificent stupidity in which nothing matters but tackle, bait, sunlight and the strike."

"Very little, really, in life is lost; material things, now and then; money which is material but necessary, often; friends, relatives, sometimes through estrangements. True love never, I believe. Death does not rob us of the essential person we have loved and still love. It deprives us of the physical presence, but never of the spiritual closeness, or of memories."

"Men’s private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world’s seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains and abysses, the endless-seeming plateaus, darkness and light, and always the sowing and the reaping."