35 Quotes by Nan Fairbrother

I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would be the completely expendable.

Most of us are experts at solving other people’s problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other people but for ourselves.

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that we love them, not when we feel like it, but when they do...

It is always one of the tragedies of any relationship, even between people sensitive to each other’s moods, that the moments of emotion so rarely coincide.

A garden is one of the few expressions of man’s nature that is altogether benign.

The sorrows of children are profound and unsuspected...

We envy people we love for being always in their own loved company...

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.