Helen Cresswell Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“There are few more frustrating things in life than being told something that you already know but cannot admit to knowing.”
-- Helen Cresswell

Source : Helen Cresswell (1987). “Ordinary Jack: Being the First Part of the Bagthorpe Saga”, Viking Childrens Books

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“I got born in the wrong family ...”
-- Helen Cresswell

Source : Helen Cresswell (1987). “Ordinary Jack: Being the First Part of the Bagthorpe Saga”, Viking Childrens Books

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“I am an idle devil. But at least I work at it.”
-- Helen Cresswell

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“Machines are the opium of the masses. If all the machines in England were thrown into the North Sea tomorrow, we should be back in the Garden of Eden. And the weather would probably improve.”
-- Helen Cresswell

Source : Helen Cresswell (1987). “Ordinary Jack: Being the First Part of the Bagthorpe Saga”, Viking Childrens Books

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“A sense of humor is regarded as a sign of mental health - apart from excessive punning, which is another matter entirely.”
-- Helen Cresswell

#Matter Quotes #Sense Of Humor Quotes #Mental Health Quotes

“The only good reason for swimming, so far as I can see, is to escape drowning.”
-- Helen Cresswell

Source : Helen Cresswell (2017). “The Bagthorpe Saga: Ordinary Jack (Collins Modern Classics)”, p.14, HarperCollins UK

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“One should not be happy or distressed over desirables and undesirables, knowing that such feelings are just created by the mind.”

“Not knowing all of the conventions of beauty, he [Tom Thomson] found it all beautiful.”

“Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced. The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.”

“Like a pet fish unaware of the fishbowl it lives in, each of us inherently discriminates against young people without knowing it.”

“Right now you can allow yourself to experience a very simple sense of not knowing - not knowing what or who you are, not knowing what this moment is, not knowing anything. If you give yourself this gift of not knowing and you follow it, a vast spaciousness and mysterious openness dawns within you. Relaxing into not knowing is almost like surrendering into a big, comfortable chair; you just fall into a field of possibility.”

Source : Adyashanti (2011). “Falling into Grace: Insights on the End of Suffering”, p.139, Sounds True

“I didn't read at all until I was 12. I just couldn't. It was too frustrating.”

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“One can pass on responsibility, but not the discretion that goes with it.”

Source : Benvenuto Cellini (1956). “The Autobiography”

“Even in a hero's heart Discretion is the better part.”

“Philosophy is nothing but discretion.”

Source : John Selden, Richard Milward (1821). “Seldeniana: with a biographical preface”, p.102

“Neither coquetry nor love is imbued with discretion.”