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 -
If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.
Yakov Smirnoff -
Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of various sorts.
H. P. Lovecraft -
I wanted people to see me, to change their minds about me.
Fantasia Barrino -
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 -
A skilled worker, regardless of the job description, remains a treasure.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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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.
Philipp Meyer -
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 -
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 -
Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment.
Oprah Winfrey -
Your true self is a treasure of all divine virtues.
Ma Jaya -
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
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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.
Marianne Williamson -
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 -
The newspaper is a greater treasure to the people than uncounted millions of gold.
Henry Ward Beecher -
Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.
Plato -
Yet I pity the poor wretch, though he's my enemy. He's yoked to an evil delusion, but the same fate could be mine. I see clearly: we who live are all phantoms, fleeing shadows.
Sophocles -
Also CSPAN is really the great treasure of the media as far as getting information.
William Hurt
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All this had always been and he had never seen it; he was never present. Now he was present and belonged to it. Through his eyes he saw light and shadows; through his mind he was aware of moon and stars.
Hermann Hesse -
Whatever part drink may play in the writer's life, it must play none in his or her work.
Kingsley Amis -
Have you ever thought about what protects our hearts? Just a cage of rib bones and other various parts. So it's fairly simple to cut right through the mess, And to stop the muscle that makes us confess
Ingrid Michaelson -
Grandfathers do have a special place in the lives of their children's children. They can delight and play with them and even indulge them in ways that they did not indulge their own children. Grandfather knows that after the fun and games are over with his adorable grandchildren he can return to the quiet of his own home and peacefully reflect on this phenomenon of fatherhood.
Alvin Francis Poussaint -
Shadows are cool and peaceful places for those whose minds are overstocked with treasure.
Eva Ibbotson