Vida Dutton Scudder Quotes

It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.

The worst danger of the mystic is as always a quest of spiritual privilege leading to aloofness from the common lot.

Luxury, like a minimum wage, is a relationship; it changes as we change.

An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer joys.

the suppression of war is not the equivalent of peace.

war to win peace is at best a dangerously illogical method.

Reality, like beauty, is in relationship and there only.