Author of quotes: Selma Lagerlöf

Isn't it wonderful - never to spare himself and to be a tireless worker up to old age.

Backbreaking work it is difficult to dismiss.

There are words that the language is too hard to pronounce.

This is common to all people eagerly wait for spring.

The soft bed does not bring repose to those who do not sleep out of grief.

All we are weak or sinful, and therefore, in essence, one is nothing to boast about before others.

When we have to go through something really hard, it is good if you can say to yourself: "It is necessary, I know, why do so. There is no alternative". And painful anxiety gives way to a firm conviction that you will only submit to circumstances. It is true that all the wait easier if I know it's a done deal and nothing to change it is impossible.

She learned to love love with all her suffering, tears and anguish.
- It is better to suffer with her than happy without her, she said.

... The human soul always craves for more. The soul cannot live solely by pleasure and vanity. If she does not give other food, she is like a wild animal, first tormented the other, then itself.

Any of the most delicious food in the world can bring people more pleasure, than those which he feels in dreams.

People don't always need advice. Sometimes they need a hand that will support it. Ear that will listen, and a heart that will understand.

You don't understand what is your own house. You need to go out into the world and get lost there, not once nor twice, before you are able to truly appreciate what you have.

If you only knew what it means to feel rejected! I do not ask myself whether you do or not. There can be no questions!

For what is a human soul, is not the frolicking flames? Yes, Yes, she is fire! She breaks out in a person embraces it and spinning over him, just like the fire flashes in the grey wood, covers them and spinning over them. When those who were going to winter evenings around the blazing fire, sat silently for an hour or two, staring at the hearth, the fire spoke with each of them in their own language.