16 Quotes by Elizabeth Hay

A child lies like a grey pebble on the shore until a certain teacher picks him up and dips him in water, and suddenly you see all the colours and patterns in the dull stone, and it’s marvelous for the stone and marvelous for the teacher.

She would always be living her life backwards, she realized, trying to regain something perfect that she’d lost.

How attraction works, making one’s body almost painfully alive and one’s thoughts concentrated, also painfully. And the truth of these powerful attractions – they have their own morality and nothing else matters.

And when is it ever convincing, the belief others have in your abilities? You know perfectly well they can’t see the mess inside you.

Movement always helps. A world of thoughts occurred to her whenever she rode a train, and a lesser world whenever she went for a walk.

You stand next to the sea and you’re in touch with all your longings and all your losses.

When you take things personally, she knew, the world becomes very small. It is you and nothing is smaller. When you manage not to do that, the world opens wide.