Lucy Larcom

... it is the greatest of all mistakes to begin life with the expectation that it is going to be easy, or with the wish to have it so. ↗

— Lucy Larcom

#expectation #inspirational #life #inspirational

He who plants a tree, plants a hope. ↗

— Lucy Larcom

#inspirational #tree #inspirational

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it. ↗

— Lucy Larcom

#fires #kindle #seems #warm #world

We might all place ourselves in one of two ranks the women who do something, and the women who do nothing; the first being of course the only creditable place to occupy. ↗

— Lucy Larcom

#course #first #might #nothing #occupy

Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good. ↗

— Lucy Larcom

#did #difficult #does #good #grow

If the world's a veil of tears, Smile till rainbows span it. ↗

— Lucy Larcom

#rainbows #span #tears #till #veil

I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough. ↗

— Lucy Larcom

#defied #discords #drown #enough #fly