16 Quotes by Mary Ellen Chase

Even one's yesterdays could not continue to stir and move in a man's mind unless there were a future for those yesterdays to make.

Christmas is not a date. It is a state of mind.

It is quite possible to leave your home for a walk in the early morning air and return a different person - beguiled, enchanted.

It is quite possible to leave your home for a walk in the early morning air and return a different person – beguiled, enchanted.

Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it’s own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one’s thoughts.

Even one’s yesterdays could not continue to stir and move in a man’s mind unless there were a future for those yesterdays to make.

Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it’s all for.