Elizabeth Enright Quotes

By lunchtime the valley was lightly coated, like a cake with confectioner's sugar...there was white fur on the antlers of the iron deer and on the melancholy boughs of the Norway spruce.

Elizabeth Enright

• Melancholy
• Lunchtime
• Antlers

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• Research has shown that time pressure leads to tunnel vision and that people think more creatively when they are calm, unhurried and free from stress and distractions. We all know this from experience.

  

  Carl Honore
  • People
  • Time
  • Experience

• Some of the greatest moments in human history were fueled by emotional intelligence.

  

  Adam Grant
  • History
  • Moments
  • Emotional

• Are we not witnessing a situation where children are conciously rejecting their parents' value despite love and devotion given to them? The present situation has arisen because parents have failed to transmit a sustaining faith to their children. The basic reason for this failure is that the parents themselves lacked faith. Without faith, their love was an image not a reality, a statement of words not an expression of feelings

  

  Alexander Lowen
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Reality

• I dislike loud-mouthed patriots who suggest they like our country more than I do. Some people's idea of patriotism is hating other countries.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Country

• And that wreched creature without hands or feet, who had to be put to bed and fed like a child, that pitiable remnant of a man, whose almost vanished life was nothing more than one scream of pain, cried out in furious indignation: 'What a fool one must be to go and kill oneself!' " - 'Joy of Life

  

  Emile Zola
  • Life
  • Men
  • Children

• In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

  

  Plato
  • City
  • Politics
  • Physician

• I try my best to learn from other people's mistakes. I have a lot of respect for people who can change.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Change
  • Respect
  • Learn

• The gods approve The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Soul
  • Depth
  • Approval

• Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, & they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals & is utterly useless to any one; a blight never does good to a tree, & if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit, let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight.

  

  William Blake
  • Happiness
  • Sorrow
  • Kill

• I was bulimic for a really long time and I self-harmed as well. I eventually went to a GP and I had an irregular heartbeat that they thought might have come from the bulimia. I had to go to hospital to take a lot of tests, to check my heart was working properly. It was such a low point for me and I was so scared that I was like, ‘I want to get better. I want to change now.’ Then I began to see a therapist and started taking medication, and I think a combination of those things, with lots of other elements, started helping me get better.

  

  Olly Alexander Years & Years
  • Long Time
  • Bulimic
  • Self-harmed

• True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Beauty
  • Purity

• They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against ever admitting consolation in future.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Reflection
  • Sorrow
  • Afford

• It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt, It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty holes it fills, It comes first and follows after, Ends life, kills laughter.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Life
  • Stars
  • Laughter

• The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Understand
  • Bible
  • Christians

• By lunchtime the valley was lightly coated, like a cake with confectioner's sugar...there was white fur on the antlers of the iron deer and on the melancholy boughs of the Norway spruce.

  

  Elizabeth Enright
  • Melancholy
  • Lunchtime
  • Antlers