Moments when the original 'poet' in each of us created the outside world for us, by finding the familiar in the unfamiliar, are perhaps forgotten by most people; or else they are guarded in some secret place of memory because… — 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 Image
“By continual watching and expression I must learn to observe my thought and maintain a vigilance, not against “wrong” thoughts, but against refusal to recognize any thought. Further, this introspection meant continual expression, not continual analysis; it meant that I must bring my thoughts and feelings up in their wholeness, not argue about them and try to pretend they were… — 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 Image
Love is not getting, but giving. It is sacrifice. And sacrifice is glorious! — Marion Milner Copy Share Image
“Blind thinking… could make me pretend I was being true to myself when really I was only being true to an infantile fear and confusion of situations; and the more confused it was the more it would call to its aid a sense of conviction. Yet for all its parade there was as much in common between its certainties 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 Image
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 Image
“Let no one think it is an easy way because it is concerned with moments of happiness rather than with stern duty or high moral endeavour. For what is really easy, as I found, is to blind one’s eyes to what one really likes, to drift into accepting one’s wants ready-made from other people, and to evade the continual day… — Marion Milner Copy Share
It's weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them. — Marion Milner Copy Share Image
“If emotion and fatigue lowered the potency of thought, what raised it? I began to reconsider my moments of delight in terms of this statement of the problem, moments whose essential quality had been a fusing of experience, a flash of significance uniting the meaningless and separate. If one assumed that thinking was a process involving some form of energy,… — 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 depend upon the capacity to relax all straining, to widen my attention beyond the circle of personal interest, and to look detachedly at my own experience. I had just realized that this relaxing and detachment must… — 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 that would get on with the job of living without my continual tampering. I suppose I did not really reach it until I had discovered how to sink down beneath the level of chattering thoughts and… — Marion Milner Copy Share
