Quotes by Edith Howes

“It would presently be his task to take the bandage from this young woman's eyes, and bid her look forth upon the world. But how many generations of the women of had gone to her making had descended bandaged to the family vault? He shivered a little, remembering some of the new ideas in his scientific books, and the much-cited instance of the Kentucky cave-fish, which had ceased to develop eyes because they had no use for them. What if, when he had bidden May Welland to open hers, they could only look out blankly at blankness?””

“I thought: Now I am like Dante. I walk through hell, but I am not burning.””

“But as long as you’re avoiding your feelings, you’re denying reality. And if you try to shut something out and say, “I don’t want to think about it,” I guarantee that you’re going to think about it. So invite the feeling in, sit down with it, keep it company. And then decide how long you’re going to hold on to it. Because you’re not a fragile little somebody. It’s good to face every reality. To stop fighting and hiding. To remember that a feeling is just a feeling”

“One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.””

“And that nice little balcony is yours? How cool it looks up there!”””

“We foolish mortals sometimes live through years not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is your life.””

“There needs to be a homemaker exercising some measure of skill, imagination, creativity, desire to fulfill needs and give pleasure to others in the family. How precious a thing is the human family. It it not worth some sacrifice in time, energy, safety, discomfort, work? Does anything come forth without work?””

“...I understood that feelings, no matter how powerful, aren't fatal. And they are only temporary. Suppressing the feelings only makes it harder to let them go. Expression is the opposite of depression.””

“The soul withdrew to a rational silence. The body remained there in the madness.””

“But from this moment on, I understood that feelings, no matter how powerful, aren’t fatal. And they are temporary.””

“This is how we release ourselves from the prison of avoidance”