When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.

Quote by Sara Teasdale

Topics: Life Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, Youth Quotes

A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting...

A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting...

I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.

I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.

When I can look Life in the eyes, Grown calm and very coldly wise, Life...

When I can look Life in the eyes, Grown calm and very coldly wise, Life...

I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy

I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy

Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.

Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.

I shall make the most of all that comes: And the least of all that...

I shall make the most of all that comes: And the least of all that...

Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.

Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.

Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad; his kiss was not...

Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad; his kiss was not...

Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery.

Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery.

Then, like an old-time orator impressively he rose; I make the most of all that...

Then, like an old-time orator impressively he rose; I make the most of all that...

I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.

I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

I shall make the most of all that comes: And the least of all that...

I shall make the most of all that comes: And the least of all that...

It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make...

It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make...

Life is but thought.

Life is but thought.

I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy.

I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy.

Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?

Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?

There's nothing half so real in life as the things you've done... inexorably, unalterably done.

There's nothing half so real in life as the things you've done... inexorably, unalterably done.

Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a...

Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a...