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

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Source : Eva Ibbotson (2008). “The Secret Countess”, p.24, Pan Macmillan

Eva Ibbotson

#Peaceful Quotes #Mind Quotes #Shadow Quotes

“God enters the world through those of us who are willing to let God participate fully in our lives.”
“One of my biggest lessons in life is, we heal at the speed of our forgiveness.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe oneâ€™s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?”
“The doctors take the bodily evidence as the disease. . . . disease is itself an impudent opinion. He throws off the feelings of the sick and imparts to them his own which are perfect health, and his explanation destroys their feelings or disease. . . . He is like a captain who knows his business and feels confident in a storm, and his confidence sustains the crew and ship when both would be lost if the captain should give way to his fears.”
“I don't want to live in a world where the strong rule and the weak cower. I'd rather make a place where things are a little quieter. Where trolls stay the hell under their bridges and where elves don't come swooping out to snatch children from their cradles. Where vampires respect the limits, and where the faeries mind their p's and q's. My name is Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Conjure by it at your own risk. When things get strange, when what goes bump in the night flicks on the lights, when no one else can help you, give me a call. I'm in the book.”
“I don't like taking a sly picture on the side. I like the direct approach. I want to be as honest to myself and the subject as possible. And I'm depending on their humanness to come through.”
“I have never got on with the quietist movements: they lapse too easily into self-congratulations: I have found the oneness, you have not. I prefer to look outside myself if I possibly can, not inside. Meditation reminds me too forcibly of being made to lie on a mat at nursery school and take an hour's nap.”
“Find your purpose by excavating and tying together the common threads of your happy memories by focusing on the emotions you felt.”

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