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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People bring to what they see and feel, the inner weather of their souls and complexion of their minds.
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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 guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.
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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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It's not in the draftsmanship, it's in the man. Like I say, a tool is dead. A brush is a dead object. It's in the man. If you want to do it, you do it.
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Progression: you can start from where you are.
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The love for material things grows like a fungus in the soul and destroys the loveliness of the human heart utterly.
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Shadows are cool and peaceful places for those whose minds are overstocked with treasure.
