I lived in the midst of an affectionate, charming family, and I am sure that there is no greater obstacle to a person who is just beginning to write.
—Katharine Butler Hathaway
To me, money is alive. It is almost human. If you treat it with real sympathy and kindness and consideration, it will be a good servant and work hard for you, and stay with you and take care of you. If you treat it arrogantly and contemptuously, as if it were not human, as if it were only a slave and could work without limit, it will turn on you with a great revenge and leave you to look after yourself alone.
—Katharine Butler Hathaway
It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.
—Katharine Butler Hathaway
More quotations tagged with “affection”
Money does not corrupt people. What corrupts people is lack of affection.… Money is simply the bandage which wounded people put over their wounds.
—Margaret Halsey
It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living.
—Eric Hoffer
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.
—W. Somerset Maugham
The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.
—Oscar Wilde
A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
—Billie Holiday
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I lived in the midst of an affectionate, charming family, and I am sure that there is no greater obstacle to a person who is just beginning to write.