"I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up."

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Source : Joseph Robinette, Beatrix Potter (1994). “The Adventures of Peter Rabbit and His Friends: A Full-length Play Based on the Life and Stories of Beatrix Potter”, p.71, Dramatic Publishing

Beatrix Potter

#Stories Quotes #Grew Up Quotes #Made Quotes

“Remember to practice a little every day -- that's crucial.”
“I knew I could play well on the grass, but I really played so well today. I knew exactly what I had to play to beat her. I just did everything I could in the moment. I was very focused for every point. I knew that I had to go forward for every shot I was playing to push her back, and yeah, I did it.”
“To let go means to give up coercing, resisting, or struggling, in exchange for something more powerful and wholesome which comes out of allowing things to be as they are without getting caught up in your attraction to or rejection of them, in the intrinsic stickiness of wanting, of liking and disliking.”
“I was always interested in how to be more joyful. This goes all the way back to elemenatary school. I looked at what was going on around me and I wanted something better. Because my mother had so many ups and downs, I watned to know how to be "up" more often.”
“...the essential intention is the real sin. A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man.”
“I wonder if Eve could write letters in Paradise! But, poor Eve, she had no one to write to - no one to whom to tell what Eden was, no beloved child to whom her love traveled through any or all space. Poor Eve!”

Source : Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1872). “Life and Letters of Catherine M. Sedgwick”, p.405
“Success is not something you own; it's something you rent, and the rent is due every day. When you stop paying rent on success, you start paying the rent on failure.”
“When you seek to dominate another you dominate no one but disempower yourself.”

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