Quote by Jill Paton Walsh Download Open image ““allowed themselves to reinhabit themselves”” — Jill Paton Walsh ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“History has taught us that people who live to serve humanity selflessly are the ones who live forever. Those who divorce themselves from service… — Godfried K. Konglo Copy Share Image
“Redefining oneself is something we all have to do ... The only person who could ever set bounds on you should be yourself.” — Genevieve Cogman Copy Share Image
“To let others define us is to relinquish authority over our very existence.” — Tony Hayden Copy Share Image
“I surrendered myself to the cages of others' expectations, cultural mandates and institutional allegiances. Until I buried who I was in order to become… — Glennon Doyle Copy Share Image
“People who are dependent live accordingly to the lives and needs of others, and are emotionally blocked from journeying down the road of self-actualisation,… — The power of negative thinking Tony Humphreys pg 60 Copy Share Image
“The process of living is to surrender what, for a few glimmering days or years, you have been allowed to hold. But there is… — Ramona Ausubel Copy Share Image
“The memory of their former freedom will not let them rest; so that the safest course is either to destroy them, or to go… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“I was afraid of being annihilated on account of saying no: those who refuse to fulfill their duties lose their right to exist.” — Yoko Tawada Copy Share Image
“the infinite capacity of humans to wound one another without meaning or wanting to” — Margaret Laurence Copy Share Image
“It’s just that we wear rose-coloured spectacles when we return here [to Oxford] – we are dazzled by the foolish idealism of our youthful… — Jill Paton Walsh Copy Share Image
There is nothing more important than writing well for the young, if literature is to have a continuance ... They will inherit the earth;… — Jill Paton Walsh Copy Share Image
If you tell someone a secret, and ask them to keep it secret, you are asking them to display a discretion you are unable… — Jill Paton Walsh Copy Share Image
“Granted, a man may smile and smile and be a villain, but it takes nerve.” — Jill Paton Walsh Copy Share Image
“It’s the Queen’s English now,’ observed Peter mildly. ‘Is there a difference?’ asked Oundle rhetorically. ‘I fervently hope not.’ ‘There will be in time,’… — Jill Paton Walsh Copy Share Image
The protagonist of folktale is always, and intensely, a young person moving through ordeals into adult life. . . . and this is why… — Jill Paton Walsh Copy Share Image
“[A]fter all, the position of a reader in a book is very like that occupied by angels in the world, when angels still had… — Jill Paton Walsh Copy Share Image
It is only grown-ups who want children to be children; children themselves always want to be real people. — Jill Paton Walsh Copy Share Image
“Harriet said, "You shouldn't have reminded me to sign that book, Peter." "Why ever not? Have you suddenly become bashful about your hard-earned glories?"… — Jill Paton Walsh Copy Share Image
“Bunter came with me in the role of a friend. A role he has always played to perfection." "It does not require dissimulation, my… — Jill Paton Walsh Copy Share Image
