Victoria Ocampo Quotes

#1. We stood for a moment, handclasped in the warm sunshine, and I thought, like a lovesick girl: This is heaven.

Philippa Gregory

#2. A mind is not profound by itself, just like a tree without a root.

Pearl Zhu

#3. Morality, like physical cleanliness, is not acquired once and for all: it can only be kept and renewed by a habit of constant watchfulness and discipline.

Victoria Ocampo

#4. If you think there's something you need in order to be happy, then you believe in lack. Then believing you lack, you will create more lack.

Marianne Williamson

#5. The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.

Barbara Bush

#6. Yes. I remember.
His voice had deepened. I remember. Mina did, too, every conversation they'd had over breakfast, and it made her heart ache. Such a strange thing ... She suddenly couldn't laugh anymore.

Meljean Brook

#7. Medicine, likewise, because it deals with things, has always been for our serener circles a Cinderella, blooming maid as happily as she has grown nevertheless.

Clifford Allbutt