Marion Milner

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

— Marion Milner

“By continual watching and expression I must learn to observe my thought and maintain a vigilance, not against “wrong” thoughts, but against…

— Marion Milner

Happiness not only needs no justification, but it is also the only final test of whether what I am doing is right…

— Marion Milner

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

— Marion Milner

“Blind thinking… could make me pretend I was being true to myself when really I was only being true to an infantile…

— Marion Milner

until you have, once at least, faced everything you know - the whole universe - with utter giving in, and let all…

— Marion Milner

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

— Marion Milner

“Let no one think it is an easy way because it is concerned with moments of happiness rather than with stern duty…

— Marion Milner

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

— Marion Milner

“If emotion and fatigue lowered the potency of thought, what raised it? I began to reconsider my moments of delight in terms…

— Marion Milner

“I had just begun to ponder over the fact that all the things which I had found to be sources of happiness…

— Marion Milner

“It struck me as odd that it had taken me so long to reach a feeling of sureness that there was something…

— Marion Milner

“Here then was a deadlock. I wanted to get the most out of life, but the more I tried to grasp, the…

— Marion Milner

“I had been continually exhorted to define my purpose in life, but I was now beginning to doubt whether life might not…

— Marion Milner

I want to feel myself part of things, of the great drift and swirl: not cut off, missing things, like being sent…

— Marion Milner

“I did not know that I could only get the most out of life by giving myself up to it.”

— Marion Milner

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

— Marion Milner

“Although I could not have told about it at the time, I can now remember the feeling of being cut off from…

— Marion Milner

“If just looking could be so satisfying, why was I always striving to have things or to get things done? Certainly I…

— Marion Milner

Once you assume your right to interfere in other people's problems they become in some ways more of a worry than your…

— Marion Milner

“As soon as I began to study my perception, to look at my own experience, I found that there were different ways…

— Marion Milner

“I came to the conclusion then that “continual mindfulness” could certainly not mean that my little conscious self should be entirely responsible…

— Marion Milner

I came to the conclusion then that "continual mindfulness". . . must mean, not a sergeantmajor-like drilling of thoughts, but a continual…

— Marion Milner

“Not only did I find that trying to describe my experience enhanced the quality of it, but also this effort to describe…

— Marion Milner

Moments when the original 'poet' in each of us created the outside world for us, by finding the familiar in the unfamiliar,…

— Marion Milner