Eva Ibbotson Quotes
Shadows are cool and peaceful places for those whose minds are overstocked with treasure.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.
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Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of various sorts.
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I wanted people to see me, to change their minds about me.
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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.
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A skilled worker, regardless of the job description, remains a treasure.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment.
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Your true self is a treasure of all divine virtues.
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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.
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I want to inspire people to really open up their minds and not be one-sided or biased or hypocritical.
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The best gift you can give is a hug: one size fits all and no one ever minds if you return it.
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Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.
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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.
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The newspaper is a greater treasure to the people than uncounted millions of gold.
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How do we know, then, when a code's been cracked?when we are right?when do we know if we have even received a message? Why, naturally, when, upon one set of substitutions, sense emerges like the outline under a rubbing; when a single tentative construal leads to several; when all the sullen letters of the code cry TEAM! after YEA! has been, by several hands, uncovered.
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We are blind to the worlds within us, waiting to be born.
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Music is to give, share.
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In the free world, your days pass very quickly because you have so many things to do, and you're in control of your life.
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I have to keep reminding myself that I am their mother. Sometimes we are sitting at home and I feel like we are waiting for our mom to come home.
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Shadows are cool and peaceful places for those whose minds are overstocked with treasure.
