Joan Walsh Anglund Quotes

• Adversity often activates a strength we did not know we had.

  Joan Walsh Anglund

  Healing, Adversity, Remembrance

  Joan Walsh Anglund (1990). “Crocus in the Snow: A Book of Poems”, Random House Incorporated

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• Love comes quietly... / but you know when it is there.

  Joan Walsh Anglund

  Love, Knows

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• Love comes quietly... but you know when it is there because suddenly... you are not alone anymore... and there is no sadness in you.

  Joan Walsh Anglund

  Sadness, Knows, Not Alone

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• Friendships begin because, even without words, we understand how someone feels.

  Joan Walsh Anglund

  Friendship, Feels

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• A brook can be a friend in a special way. It talks to you with splashy gurgles. It cools your toes and lets you sit quietly beside it when you don't feel like speaking.

  Joan Walsh Anglund

  Rivers, Special, Environmental

  Joan Walsh Anglund (1958). “A Friend is Someone who Likes You”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The best way to help yourself is to help someone else.

  Joan Walsh Anglund

  Way, Helping, Help Yourself

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• The only educational aspect of television is that it puts the repair man's kids through college.

  Joan Walsh Anglund

  Education, Teaching, Kids

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• Friendship is like a rose. . . opening one petal at a time, only as it unfolds. . . day by day it reveals its true beauty.

  Joan Walsh Anglund

  Friendship, Rose, True Beauty

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• Like all good teachers, the world repeats her lesson. Over and over ...with wordless variety... She spells the name of Love.

  Joan Walsh Anglund

  Inspirational, Teacher, Names

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• Where is the yesterday that worried us so.

  Joan Walsh Anglund

  Yesterday, Worried

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• Peace is the harvest of love as war is the fruit of hate.

  Joan Walsh Anglund

  Peace, Hate, War

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• Life is in the living. Love is in the giving.

  Joan Walsh Anglund

  Love Is, Giving, Life Is

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• Color is something we see with our eyes, but love is something we see with our heart.

  Joan Walsh Anglund

  Heart, Eye, Love Is

  Joan Walsh Anglund (1971). “Do You Love Someone?”, Harcourt Childrens Books

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• Words have consequences, and I judge people not only by their words but what they do. And if you look at people who have a pattern, who've built a career out of dividing people and who built a career out of often not just Obama but finding ways to degrade and diminish African-Americans and African-American leaders. It's racist to consistently make your living on the backs of black people.

  Joan Walsh Anglund

  Careers, Judging, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• These two guys [Donald Trump and Chris Christie] kinds find each other. They love each other. They were playing let`s spend the night together when I turned the TV in the hotel today. I was like oh, my goodness.But it`s like the worst buddy movie. They degrade women. They steal candy from orphans. They mock the disabled. They pick on teachers. It`s frightening to watch.

  Joan Walsh Anglund

  Teacher, Night, Two

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time: pills or stairs.

  Joan Walsh Anglund

  Motivational, Fitness, Health

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• Between loving friends there need be no secrets . . . the trusting heart is always safe with another who truly cares.

  Joan Walsh Anglund

  Heart, Secret, Needs

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• He [Donald Trump] is got no ethics when it comes to business and can they turn this story line, talk to his white working class base and say, he`s hired illegal immigrants. He doesn`t look out for you. He`s taking your kids money at Trump University and he is being accused of fraud.

  Joan Walsh Anglund

  Kids, Class, White

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Do not be sad that you have suffered, be glad that you have lived.

  Joan Walsh Anglund

  Glad

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• We dwell in shadow or in sunlight . . . according to our belief.

  Joan Walsh Anglund

  Shadow, Belief, Sunlight

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• I used to keep my college roommate from reading my personal mail by hiding it in her textbooks.

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  Education, Reading, College

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• A small speckled visitor Wearing a crimson cape Brighter than a cherry Smaller than a grape A polka-dotted someone Walking on my wall A black-hooded lady In a scarlet shawl.

  Joan Walsh Anglund

  Wall, Black, Capes

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• Faith is the staff that will support you over the rockiest terrain.

  Joan Walsh Anglund

  Support You, Support, Staff

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• In the history of this country [USA], the reason we have never developed a social democratic base, the way they have in Europe - we're the only Western country without some kind of universal health care. There's a reason, and it is because corporate interests have divided the American people by race and ethnicity, the Irish from the blacks, the Germans from the German Jews.

  Joan Walsh Anglund

  Country, Ethnicity, Europe

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• A poet wants only one small stone on which to carve his life.

  Joan Walsh Anglund

  Poetry, Want, Stones

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