I Miss Hawaii Quotes

#1. We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology.

Carl Jung

#2. Pleasing things: finding a large number of tales that one has not read before. Or acquiring the second volume of a tale whose first volume one has enjoyed. But often it is a disappointment.

Sei Shonagon

#3. In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.

Marianne Williamson

#4. I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously.
[Writer's Digest Interview (Robert Jacobs, Writer's Digest, February 1976)]

Ray Bradbury

#5. If she had hurt me, I could have forgiven her without even having to think about it; but I couldn't forgive her for being hurt.

Tana French

#6. Pessimism is the luxury of the powerful.

Fatema Mernissi

#7. Unkind criticism is never part of a meaningful critique of you. Its purpose is not to teach or to help, its purpose is to punish.

Barbara Sher

#8. During rehearsals I am confronted by things very mysterious. I have terrific fights with inner demons, and it's more painful than it ever was.

Jeanne Moreau

#9. No human can bury their past indefinitely. It's only a matter of time before you crack.

K.A. Tucker

#10. I have very limited craftsmanship. And a lot of the stuff I make plays on that.

David Rees

#11. There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been pushed around by foreigners in particular, but also by their own people.

Lakhdar Brahimi

#12. Nearly every man is a coward, if confronted by the proper terror.

E.W. Howe

#13. There was a certain bitter humor to lying awake wishing for something one cannot have, after lying awake not so long ago wishing for the opposite thing that one had just lost. Not a very useful sort of adaptability, this, she thought.

Robin McKinley