Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others … Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.”(Journal entry, 14 October 1922)
A big bee, a golden furry fellow, crept into a freesia, and the delicate flower leaned over, swung, shook; and when the bee flew away it fluttered still as though it were laughing. Happy, careless flower!
Isn’t life,’ she stammered, ‘isn’t life–‘ But what life was she couldn’t explain. No matter. He quite understood.’Isn’t it, darling?’ said Laurie.
I can never be perfectly certain whether Helen was got with child by Leonard Bast or by his fatal forgotten umbrella. All things considered, I think it must have been the umbrella.
To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure.
I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future plusses.
Everything about her was sweet, pale like honey. You would not have been surprised to see a bee caught in the tangles of that yellow hair.
Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become Love. That is the mystery.
Saw the sun rise. A lovely apricot sky with flames in it and then solemn pink. Heavens, how beautiful…I feel so full of love to-day after having seen the sun rise.
The truth is that every true admirer of the novels cherishes the happy thought that he alone – reading between the lines – has become the secret friend of their author.
Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change of attitude.
It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
I love to close my eyes a moment and think of the land outside, white under the mingled snow and moonlight–the heaps of stones by the roadside white–snow in the furrows. Mon Dieu! How quiet and how patient!
Sleeping was her latest discovery. ‘It’s so wonderful. One simply shuts one’s eyes, that’s all. It’s so delicious.
Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who are all happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes.
I saw myself driving through Eternity in a timeless taxi.
Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become love. That is the mystery.
Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become love. That is the mystery.
Risk! Risk anything! … Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.
Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become love. That is the mystery.
When we begin to take our failures non-seriously it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
When we can begin to take our failures non-seriously it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
I always felt that the great high privilege relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
I am treating you as my friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.
We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. … What do you want most to do? That’s what I have to keep asking myself in the face of difficulties.
We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. … What do you want most to do? That’s what I have to keep asking myself in the face of difficulties.
We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. What do you want most to do? That’s what I have to keep asking myself in the face of difficulties.
We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. What do you want most to do? That’s what I have to keep asking myself in the face of difficulties.
We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. What do you want most to do? That’s what I have to keep asking myself in the face of difficulties.
We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. What do you want most to do? That’s what I have to keep asking myself in the face of difficulties.
We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. What do you want most to do? That’s what I have to keep asking myself in the face of difficulties.
We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. What do you want most to do? That’s what I have to keep asking myself in the face of difficulties.
We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. What do you want most to do? That’s what I have to keep asking myself in the face of difficulties.
We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. What do you want most to do? That’s what I have to keep asking myself in the face of difficulties.
We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. … What do you want most to do? That’s what I have to keep asking myself in the face of difficulties.
Could we change our attitude we should not only see life differently but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change in attitude.
Could we change our attitude we should not only see life differently but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change in attitude.
Regret is an appalling waste of energy you can’t build on it it is good only for wallowing.
Make it a rule of life never to regret and never look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy you can’t build on it it’s good only for wallowing in.
Risk! Risk anything! … Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
I want by understanding myself to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.
Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.
It’s a terrible thing to be alone – yes it is – it is – but don’t lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath – as terrible as you like – but a mask.