To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as ones own in the midst of abundance.Gautama Buddha
“It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit to forgive them for having witnessed your own.”
“It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit to forgive them for having witnessed your own.”
— JESSAMYN WEST
Author · 1902 – 1984
Mary Jessamyn West was an American Quaker author known for The Friendly Persuasion (1945), stories of an Indiana Quaker family later adapted into the film Friendly Persuasion. She wrote novels, short stories and memoirs rooted in her Indiana and California upbringing.
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