I hated him. I hated them all. They made me hate myself even more than I already did.
You're trying to escape from your difficulties, and there never is any escape from difficulties, never. They have to be faced and fought.
The best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping-stones. Laugh at them, tread on them, and let them lead you to something better.
Leave something for someone but dont leave someone for something.
Well, you know what grown-ups are,' said Dinah. 'They don't think the same way as we do. I expect when we grow up, we shall think like them - but let's hope we remember what it was like to think in the way children do, and understand the boys and the girls that are growing up when we're men and women.
The secret island had looked mysterious enough on the night they had seen it before - but now, swimming in the hot June haze, it seemed more enchanting than ever. As they drew near to it, and saw the willow trees that bent over the water-edge and heard the sharp call of moorhens that scuttled off, the children gazed in delight. Nothing but trees and birds and little wild animals. Oh, what a secret island, all for their very own, to live on and play on.
If you can't look after something in your care, you have no right to keep it.
A garden is a symbol of man's arrogance, perverting nature to human ends.
Leukemia is evidently psychosomatic in origin and at least eight cases of leukemia had been treated successfully by Dianetics after medicine had traditionally given up. The source of leukemia has been reported to be an engram containing the phrase 'It turns my blood to water.
I just feel such freedom to do whatever. If a song's seven minutes or ten minutes long, then so be it - it's that long.
What use having a great depth of field, if there is not an adequate depth of feeling?