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.

Marion Milner

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

Marion Milner

#3. There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Samuel Butler

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

Marion Milner

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

Marion Milner

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

Marion Milner

#7. Truthfully, though, most organizing is nothing more than well-planned hoarding.

Joshua Fields Millburn

#8. 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.

Marion Milner

#9. 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.

Marion Milner

#10. She spoke seven languages, including Mandarin and Polish, and was finishing up her master's in Intercultural Misunderstanding, which just has to be Europe's next growth industry.

Michael Lewis

#11. You see I'm semi-retired now and don't work all the time, only most of it!

Norman Wisdom

#12. 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.

Marion Milner

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

Marion Milner

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

Marion Milner

#15. You know what I like best about looking at the stars? Not the stars themselves, but all those empty spaces between the stars. That's where I can imagine traveling for ever and ever. That's where I can imagine infinity.

T.A. Barron

#16. It wasn't the first warning sign, but for some reason that experience was a big wake-up call for me. It was now or never. I had to do something about my weight and overall

Mike Berland

#17. If we're more accepting, more peaceful, less judgmental, less selfish, then the whole world is that much more loving and peaceful, that much less judgmental and selfish.

Joseph Goldstein

#18. The one Jack had picked up was clearly of the flower/nature variety if he was vomiting foliage.

Missouri Dalton

#19. 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.

Marion Milner

#20. Self-realization is a very quiet thing. It's not flashy. No one might see you light up a room. No one might observe anything

Frederick Lenz

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

Marion Milner

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

Marion Milner

#23. To tell you the honest-to-God truth: without Scientology, I would be dead. So, I can personally highly recommend it.

Kirstie Alley

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

Marion Milner