6 Quotes & Sayings By Ethel Percy Andrus

Ethel Percy Andrus was born in Colorado, the only child of a man who was a Civil War veteran. She spent her early years in Washington, where she attended public schools and became an avid reader. At the age of twelve she began writing stories. She attended Colorado College for two years, then transferred to Columbia University, which awarded her an honorary degree in 1938 Read more

The following year she married Robert S. Andrus, who was also at Columbia, and they moved to California. After moving to Florida in the late 1940s, Ethel wrote four books: The Desperate Hours (1947), A Difficult Woman (1952), The Girl from Rio (1955), and The Girl from Havana (1957).

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We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves. Ethel Percy Andrus
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It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live. Ethel Percy Andrus
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What I spent is gone what I kept I lost but what I gave away will be mine forever. Ethel Percy Andrus
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Such to me is the new image of aging growth in self and service for all mankind. Ethel Percy Andrus
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We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves. Ethel Percy Andrus