A pint can't hold a quart - ...

A pint can\'t hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.
A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.
 Margaret Deland

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Don't settle in the land of barely enough. That is where you are, it is not who you are. That's your location, it's not your identity. No matter what it looks like, have an abundant mentality.
Everything in your life, every experience, every relationship is a mirror of the mental pattern that is going on inside of you.

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What I object to in Mother is that she wants me to think her thoughts. Apart from the question of hypocrisy, I prefer my own.
 Margaret Deland
There is a bond, it appears, between mother and child which endures as long as they do. It is independent of love; reason cannot weaken it; hate cannot destroy it.
 Margaret Deland
One must desire something to be alive; perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.
 Margaret Deland
Absurdity is the one thing love can't stand; it can overlook anything else, -- coldness, or weakness, or viciousness, -- but just be ridiculous and that's the end of it!
 Margaret Deland
When it comes to bombshells, there are few that can be more effective than that small, flat, frail thing, a letter.
 Margaret Deland