Quotes by Marion Milner

Marion Milner

by taking notice of those feelings and images that seemed to be in my blood and bones rather than in my head, I had found myself able to behave, not less reasonably, but more so. Apparently it was as much a false extreme to try and live by reason alone, leaving the passions out of count, as to ignore reason and put passion in its place as the guiding force of life.

Blood

Leaving

Passion

Colour is, on the evidence of language alone, very bound up with the feelings.

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Happiness not only needs no justification, but it is also the only final test of whether what I am doing is right for me. Only of course happiness is not the same as pleasure; it includes the pain of losing as well as the pleasure of finding.

Finals

Happiness

Pain

I began to have an idea of my life, not as slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.

Achievement

Discovery

Ideas

I came to the conclusion then that “continual mindfulness”. . . must mean, not a sergeantmajor-like drilling of thoughts, but a continual readiness to accept whatever came.

Accepting

Mean

Mindfulness

I used to worry about what life was for – now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Alive

Life

Worry

I want to draw and study a few things closely by feeling, not thinking.

Feelings

Thinking

Want

I want to feel myself part of things, of the great drift and swirl: not cut off, missing things, like being sent to bed early as a child, the blinds being drawn while the sun and cheerful voices came through the chink from the garden.

Children

Cutting

Garden

It’s weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them.

Goes On

Trying

Weak

Like a fierce wind roaring high up in the bare branches of trees, a wave of passion came over me, aimless but surging . . . I suppose it’s lust, but it’s awful and holy like thunder and lightning and the wind.

Passion

Tree

Wind

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Eye

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Finals

Garden

Giving

Goes On

Happiness

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Ifs

Knows

Language

Learning

Leaving

Life

Likes

Love Is

Mean

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Mindfulness

Obstacles

Pain

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Secret Places

Sometimes

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Time

Tree

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Quotes by Marion Milner

Marion Milner

Colour is, on the evidence of language alone, very bound up with the feelings.

Happiness not only needs no justification, but it is also the only final test of whether what I am doing is right for me. Only of course happiness is not the same as pleasure; it includes the pain of losing as well as the pleasure of finding.

I began to have an idea of my life, not as slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.

I came to the conclusion then that “continual mindfulness”. . . must mean, not a sergeantmajor-like drilling of thoughts, but a continual readiness to accept whatever came.

I used to worry about what life was for – now being alive seems sufficient reason.

I want to draw and study a few things closely by feeling, not thinking.

I want to feel myself part of things, of the great drift and swirl: not cut off, missing things, like being sent to bed early as a child, the blinds being drawn while the sun and cheerful voices came through the chink from the garden.

It’s weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them.

Like a fierce wind roaring high up in the bare branches of trees, a wave of passion came over me, aimless but surging . . . I suppose it’s lust, but it’s awful and holy like thunder and lightning and the wind.

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