“You see the same plain landscape day after day, and then one day, perhaps it's the play of light or the time… — Elizabeth Hay Fashion Copy Share Image
“What we lose is any sense that life is alive, she thought. The days follow one after the other and everything passes… — Elizabeth Hay Life Copy Share Image
“You're brave to have driven all this way." Gwen considered for a moment whether this made her brave. In truth, she was… — Elizabeth Hay Courage Copy Share Image
“Forgiveness, she was thinking, was in some terrible, overeager way, a lack of curiosity. It was a big, powerful hose that washed… — Elizabeth Hay Forgiveness Copy Share Image
“Jim enjoyed watching people take sides. It increased the drama and he loved the drama. Yet it worried him too, since he… — Elizabeth Hay Right side Copy Share Image
“The phrase that came to her mind was "the long and sudden of I." We go on and on through the long… — Elizabeth Hay Psychology Copy Share Image
“Who's to say we can't have many loves and many identities? we can hold more in our heads than we think.” — Elizabeth Hay Identity Copy Share Image
“Oh Harry," [Gwen] said. "I wish I were a different kind of person." What kind of person, he wanted to know. "Someone,"… — Elizabeth Hay Identity Copy Share Image
You stand next to the sea and you're in touch with all your longings and all your losses. — Elizabeth Hay Longing Copy Share Image
A child lies like a grey pebble on the shore until a certain teacher picks him up and dips him in water,… — Elizabeth Hay Certain Copy Share Image
“That's always the question. How to defend yourself without being nasty.” — Elizabeth Hay Copy Share Image
“You stay loyal to what increasingly disappoints you. It happens all the time.” — Elizabeth Hay Copy Share Image
“This is the way of long and empty roads: nearly forgotten things surface and singing voices improve.” — Elizabeth Hay Music making Copy Share Image
And when is it ever convincing, the belief others have in your abilities? You know perfectly well they can't see the mess… — Elizabeth Hay Ability Copy Share Image
“I usually describe my father as a man given to impenetrable solitude. If I turn the phrase I can apply it to… — Elizabeth Hay Happiness Copy Share Image
“And then he only had eyes for the pie. Watch any man, he could be ninety years old and drooling spit, but… — Elizabeth Hay Copy Share Image
“The worst things were cowardly acts of betrayal. Betraying a friend and in the process betraying yourself. He knew all about that.” — Elizabeth Hay Betrayal Copy Share Image
“Where do they come from, these things that say more than we know and more than we intend?” — Elizabeth Hay Copy Share Image
We look so very different from the way we sound. It’s a shock, similar to hearing your own voice for the first… — Elizabeth Hay Different Copy Share Image
“You run over a part of yourself when you run over something that has such a place in your heart.” — Elizabeth Hay Copy Share Image
How attraction works, making one's body almost painfully alive and one's thoughts concentrated, also painfully. And the truth of these powerful attractions… — Elizabeth Hay Alive Copy Share Image
“She would always be careful around people like Parley Burns, tricky people who are thin skinned and punitive and intelligent and surprisingly… — Elizabeth Hay Pyschology Copy Share Image
Movement always helps. A world of thoughts occurred to her whenever she rode a train, and a lesser world whenever she went… — Elizabeth Hay Fitness Copy Share Image
She would always be living her life backwards, she realized, trying to regain something perfect that she'd lost. — Elizabeth Hay Backwards Copy Share Image
