Elizabeth Lesser Quotes
If we want liberation, we must rewrite the Sleeping Beauty myth. No one is coming and no one else is to blame.
Quotes to Explore
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Psychologically, it's always more pleasurable to blame others for our problems than it is to acknowledge our own responsibility.
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Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.
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What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. 'Who am I, then?' The one who sees that.
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People don't blame the act of driving for auto accidents.
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When I first got to Cannes, I was very insecure about everything, so I put on this extravagant facade. Can you blame me? I was 19.
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The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies.
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The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
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People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
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It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.
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Some people think there's a woman to blame, but I know - it's my own damn fault
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I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go over it. You get another chance to correct and rewrite when someone else types it, and you see it clean in type. The last chance is in the proofs. You're grateful for these different chances.
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What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? So that all this chatter and praise, and blame and meeting people who admired one and meeting people who did not admire one was as ill suited as could be to the thing itself- a voice answering a voice.
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If you think you control things that are in the control of others, you will lament. You will be disturbed and you will blame both gods and men.
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The contemplation of this world beckoned as a liberation. The road to this paradise was not as comfortable and alluring as the road to the religious paradise; but it has shown itself reliable, and I have never regretted having chosen it.
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Failure is an opportunity. If you blame someone else, there is no end to the blame. Therefore the Master fulfills her own obligations and corrects her own mistakes. She does what she needs to do and demands nothing of others.
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You don't blame us for being here, do you? After all, we have no place to go. No home... Incidentally, what an excellent day for an exorcism.
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I ought to have seized the initiative in 1938 instead of allowing myself to be forced into war in 1939; for war was, in any case, unavoidable. However, you can hardly blame me if the British and the French accepted at Munich every demand I made of them! (14th February 1945)
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For youthful faults ripe virtues shall atone.
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My pride and immaturity caused me to make things more of a struggle than they had to be. I can always blame others or circumstances, but the truth was that my own sinful pride led to more stress than anything else.
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When blame has been assigned, the story is over.
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To invent something, all you need is imagination and a big pile of junk.
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I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.
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I've often said to myself, "Thank God I can write, 'cause this is hilarious." I actually wanted to go into all that more in the book, but my editor thought it was too crazy.
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If we want liberation, we must rewrite the Sleeping Beauty myth. No one is coming and no one else is to blame.
