Rachel Field Quotes

I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

Rachel Field

• May
• Think
• Ambition

no matter how hard and faithfully we may try we can never compensate another for some lack in his or her life.

Rachel Field

• Life
• May

I was never one to begrudge people their memories. From a child I would listen when they spoke of the past.

Rachel Field

• People
• Past
• Memories

There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.

Rachel Field

• Reality
• Pain
• Thought

The difference between ambition and discontent is quite a fine line and sometimes it is hard to tell which is which and which you are feeling!

Rachel Field

• Feeling
• Ambition

One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.

Rachel Field

• Writing
• Book
• Friends

I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.

Rachel Field

• Opinion
• Fire
• Wind

Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.

Rachel Field

• Good
• Happiness
• Desert

No hardy perennial has the enduring quality of hope. Cut it to the roots, stamp it underfoot, let frost and fire work their will, and still some valiant shoot will push, to grow again on such scanty fare as it can find. Only time and the cruel quicklime of fact can destroy that stubborn urgency.

Rachel Field

• Time
• Work
• Hope

Isn’t it strange some people make You feel so tired inside, Your thoughts begin to shrivel up Like leaves all brown and dried!But when you’re with some other ones It’s stranger still to find Your thought as thick as fireflies All shiny in your mind!

Rachel Field

• People
• Up
• Mind