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Florence Scovel Shinn
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“Unforgiveness is the most prolific cause of disease. It will harden arteries or liver, and affect the eye-sight. In its train are endless ills.”
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“Giving opens the way for receiving.”
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“You may think that all your happiness depends upon obtaining one particular thing in life; later on, you praise the Lord that you didn't get it.”
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“The Game of Life is a game of boomerangs. Man's thoughts, deeds and words return to him sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.”
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“Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.”
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“When you send out real love, real love will return to you ...”
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“No man is your enemy, no man is your friend, every man is your teacher.”
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“Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.”
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“Jealousy is the worst enemy of love ...”
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“The robbers of time are the past and the future.”
Florence Scovel Shinn, U.S. illustrator, metaphysicist
(1877 - 1940)