“For a long time I was continually putting off the next step in my exploration because I felt I ought to know more, knew there were many books written about these things, felt that I must read them all before… — Marion Milner Copy Share Image
Sometimes I find that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable. — Marion Milner Copy Share
“By continual watching and expression I must learn to observe my thought and maintain a vigilance, not against “wrong” thoughts, but against refusal to… — Marion Milner Copy Share
Happiness not only needs no justification, but it is also the only final test of whether what I am doing is right for me.… — Marion Milner Copy Share
Love is not getting, but giving. It is sacrifice. And sacrifice is glorious! — Marion Milner Copy Share
“Blind thinking… could make me pretend I was being true to myself when really I was only being true to an infantile fear and… — Marion Milner Copy Share
until you have, once at least, faced everything you know - the whole universe - with utter giving in, and let all that is… — Marion Milner Copy Share
Perhaps if one really knew when one was happy one would know the things that were necessary in one's life. — Marion Milner Copy Share
“Let no one think it is an easy way because it is concerned with moments of happiness rather than with stern duty or high… — Marion Milner Copy Share
It's weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them. — Marion Milner Copy Share
“If emotion and fatigue lowered the potency of thought, what raised it? I began to reconsider my moments of delight in terms of this… — Marion Milner Copy Share
“I had just begun to ponder over the fact that all the things which I had found to be sources of happiness seemed to… — Marion Milner Copy Share
“It struck me as odd that it had taken me so long to reach a feeling of sureness that there was something in me… — Marion Milner Copy Share
“Here then was a deadlock. I wanted to get the most out of life, but the more I tried to grasp, the more I… — Marion Milner Copy Share
“I had been continually exhorted to define my purpose in life, but I was now beginning to doubt whether life might not be too… — Marion Milner Copy Share
I want to feel myself part of things, of the great drift and swirl: not cut off, missing things, like being sent to bed… — Marion Milner Copy Share
