Quotes from Nan Fairbrother

We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.

A garden is one of the few expressions of man's nature that is altogether benign.

Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other people but for ourselves.

I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would be the completely expendable.

It is always one of the tragedies of any relationship, even between people sensitive to each other's moods, that the moments of emotion so rarely coincide.

happiness makes us older, less romantic, less in need of dreams. Discontent, not happiness, is the food of youth and poetry.

If you would be happy all your life, plant a garden.

The sorrows we imagine are more profound and inconsolable than real life leaves us time for.

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that we love them, not when we feel like it, but when they do.

We love those we are happy with. We do. For how else can we know we love them, or how else define loving?

We envy people we love for being always in their own loved company.

leisure is an attitude of mind, not simply remission of work.

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.

We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.