L S May Quotes
We don't choose our talents; but we needn't hide them in a napkin because they are not just what we want.
I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us.
Tools and techniques ought to be an extension of consciousness, but they can just as easily be a protection from consciousness. Then the tools become defence mechanisms... against the unconscious.
I like to go for a walk or swimming or in the garden when I can. It's a busy kind of life, but I guess I'm lucky.
…often between ourselves and those nearest and dearest to us there exists a reserve which it is very hard to overcome.
Today, there's an expectation that you get to know public people. In the past, it was much more what you did and how you presented yourself.
A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.
If we are all alive ten years hence, let's meet, and see how many of us have got our wishes, or how much nearer we are then than now.
The only thing experience teaches you is what you can't do. When you start, you think you can do anything. And then you start to get a little tired.
All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.
It is amazing how many hints and guides and intuitions for living come to the sensitive person who has ears to hear what his body is saying.
...for a girl with eyes like hers has a will and is not ruled by anyone but a lover.
As part of the National Strategy, the Government should commit itself to the virtual elimination of functional illiteracy and innumeracy.
The days of Britain and America intervening in sovereign countries in an attempt to remake the world in our own image are over.
The summer that I was ten - Can it be there was only one summer that I was ten? It must have been a long one then.
It remains overwhelmingly and compellingly in Britain's national interest that the EU should succeed.
I want to see an open and tolerant society here in the United Kingdom, I want to see a country that works for everyone whatever their background.
One longs for the presence of a leader like Lincoln, who openly admitted his doubts and as openly preserved his commitment.
I like to do a face steam, so, heat up a flannel, press it onto your face and then press a cold one on afterwards to close the pores. It's inexpensive!
When Dante described the circles of Hell, he clearly forgot the one where a hungry pixie sits on one's shoulder for eternity.
It is good for a professional to be reminded that his professionalism is only a husk, that the real person must remain an amateur, a lover of the work.
I would predicate that in all great works of genius masculine and feminine elements in the personality find expression, whether this androgynous nature is played out sexually or not.
She became for me an island of light, fun, wisdom where I could run with my discoveries and torments and hopes at any time of day and find welcome.
When you first come into Parliament, it's a daunting place because you feel you've so much to learn. Once you've been re-elected, you feel much more confident. It just gives you a bit of a boost.
It is dark now. The snow is deep blue and the ocean nearly black. It is time for some music.
The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.
Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!
…because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.
...the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy.
Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want.
It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths.
Why should insurance companies continue to get away with limiting the skills that a health profession has always previously required of its members if they were to be considered fully trained?
As her analyst had told her: the deeper buried the distress, the further into the body it went. The digestive system was about as far as it could go to hide.
Love and respect all people. Hate and destroy all faith.