Eva Ibbotson Quotes

Shadows are cool and peaceful places for those whose minds are overstocked with treasure.

Eva Ibbotson

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• The true treasure lies within. It is the underlying theme of the songs we sing, the shows we watch and the books we read. It is woven into the Psalms of the Bible, the ballads of the Beatles and practically every Bollywood film ever made. What is that treasure? Love. Love is the nature of the Divine.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Love
  • True
  • Nature

• If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Love
  • Laughter
  • For Him

• Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of various sorts.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Religious
  • Minds
  • Normal

• I wanted people to see me, to change their minds about me.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • People
  • Change
  • Me

• The - I don't want to say older, but the more experienced I get, I treasure and I honor what I've done much more.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Done
  • Want
  • Honor

• A skilled worker, regardless of the job description, remains a treasure.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Job
  • Treasure
  • Skilled

• We have for a long time neglected our children. They are our richest treasure. We must give them time, attention and the love of our pure, unselfish hearts.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Time
  • Children
  • Love

• Maybe all people with minds like Isaac's were the same. She knew he would make a much larger contribution than she ever would - he cared only about things much bigger than his own life. Ideas, truths, the reasons things were. As if he himself, his own existence, was somehow incidental.

  

  Philipp Meyer
  • Ideas
  • Existence
  • Minds

• People bring to what they see and feel, the inner weather of their souls and complexion of their minds.

  

  Han Suyin
  • People
  • Minds
  • Souls

• There is, of course, a gold mine or a buried treasure on every mortgaged homestead. Whether the farmer ever digs for it or not, it is there, haunting his daydreams when the burden of debt is most unbearable.

  

  Fawn M. Brodie
  • Gold
  • Treasure
  • Debt

• I'm about what goes through people's minds. The stuff that people don't want to admit or face up to. The shows are about what's buried in people's psyches.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • People
  • Up
  • Stuff

• Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Attention
  • Moment
  • Listen

• Your true self is a treasure of all divine virtues.

  

  Ma Jaya
  • True
  • Virtue
  • Self

• In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions of who we are' operate on precisely the same principles that we do.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Mind
  • Attention
  • Simple

• I want to inspire people to really open up their minds and not be one-sided or biased or hypocritical.

  

  ASAP Rocky
  • People
  • Up
  • Minds

• The best gift you can give is a hug: one size fits all and no one ever minds if you return it.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Gift
  • Minds
  • Hug

• Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Children
  • Happy
  • Minds

• If we open our eyes, if we open our minds, if we open our hearts, we will find that this world is a magical place. It is magical not because it tricks us or changes unexpectedly into something else, but because it can be so vividly and brilliantly.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • World
  • Eyes
  • Changes

• The newspaper is a greater treasure to the people than uncounted millions of gold.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • People
  • Treasure
  • Newspaper

• The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against the Crown, or kidnap, or throw vitriol, is not only to limit social responsibility unnecessarily, and to privilege the large range of intolerable misconduct that lies outside them, but to divert attention from the essential justification for extermination, which is always incorrigible social incompatibility and nothing else.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Persons
  • Safe
  • Extermination

• The first memory I have, anyway, I guess - I think it was my second birthday and the cake came out with the candles and I was very excited and I was, like, "Oh! A cake!" and then my cousin blew out the candles. I was so disappointed. It just broke my heart. And so that's stamped in my brain.

  

  Heath Ledger
  • Heart
  • Brain
  • Memory

• I once knew a writer who, after saying beautiful things about the sea, passed through a Pacific hurricane, and he became a changed man.

  

  Joshua Slocum
  • Changed
  • Writer
  • Hurricane

• Shadows are cool and peaceful places for those whose minds are overstocked with treasure.

  

  Eva Ibbotson
  • Minds
  • Treasure
  • Shadows