Marion Milner Quotes

#1. Happiness not only needs no justification, but it is also the only final test of whether what I am doing is right for me. Only of course happiness is not the same as pleasure; it includes the pain of losing as well as the pleasure of finding.

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#2. It's weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them.

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#3. The aim of the painting is that the eye should find out what it likes.

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#4. Sometimes I find that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.

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#5. I used to worry about what life was for - now being alive seems sufficient reason.

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#6. Like a fierce wind roaring high up in the bare branches of trees, a wave of passion came over me, aimless but surging ... I suppose it's lust, but it's awful and holy like thunder and lightning and the wind.

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#7. I want to feel myself part of things, of the great drift and swirl: not cut off, missing things, like being sent to bed early as a child, the blinds being drawn while the sun and cheerful voices came through the chink from the garden.

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#8. Once you assume your right to interfere in other people's problems they become in some ways more of a worry than your own, for with your own you can at least do what you think best, but other people always show such a persistent tendency to do the wrong thing.

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#9. Colour is, on the evidence of language alone, very bound up with the feelings.

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#10. Love is not getting, but giving. It is sacrifice. And sacrifice is glorious!

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#11. I came to the conclusion then that "continual mindfulness" ... must mean, not a sergeantmajor-like drilling of thoughts, but a continual readiness to accept whatever came.

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#12. Perhaps if one really knew when one was happy one would know the things that were necessary in one's life.

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#13. I want to draw and study a few things closely by feeling, not thinking.

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#14. The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.

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