When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself. – Isak Dinesen
Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever. – Isak Dinesen
Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine. – Isak Dinesen
The cure for anything is salt water — sweat, tears, or the sea. – Isak Dinesen
God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road. – Isak Dinesen
The moment she had laid the child to the breast both became perfectly calm. – Isak Dinesen
The cure for anything is salt water – sweat, tears, or the sea. – Isak Dinesen
