E.L. James Quotes

Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.

Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!

Forget not your past, for in the future it may help you grow

Nothing is complete and thus nothing is exempt from criticism.

Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.

As the physically weak man can make himself strong by careful and patient training, so the man of weak thoughts can make them strong by exercising himself in right thinking.

To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.

I have a feeling that climate change may be an issue as severe as a war. It may be necessary to put democracy on hold for a while.

As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed.

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

When you're talking about the thing that is most important to someone, they're liable to feel something strong.

But the important thing is to lie down and fall asleep. That little nap means you wake up fresh again and can continue.

Suffering is always the effect of wrong thought in some direction. It is an indication that the individual is out of harmony with himself, with the Law of his being.

When women take off their corsets and heighten their skirts it always means high inflation and low morals.

Science advances, not by the accumulation of new facts, but by the continuous development of new concepts.

Some see the glass half full, some see it half empty, and some see it crawling with toxic alien parasites who want to devour your pancreas.

I am, of course, aware that the ultimate solution is the ownership and control of the means of life by the whole of the people; but we are not at that stage of development as yet.

We are now on the threshold of a newer movement, with a newer hope and a new inspiration.

Seems as unfounded ... to say there isn't a God as to say there is.

I know the most important faculty to develop is one for hard, continuous and varied work and living; but the difference between knowing this and doing anything consistent about it is often abysmal.

To most people, nothing is more troublesome than the effort of thinking.

Economists, like royal children, are not punished for their errors.

Rampaging horsemen can conquer; only the city can civilize.

In the name of Annah the Allmaziful, the Everliving, the Bringer of Plurabilities, haloed be her eve, her singtime sung, her rill be run, unhemmed as it is uneven!

Lord, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low.

The essence of profound insight is simplicity.

Every age must look for its sanction to its poetry and philosophy, for in these the human mind, as it looks backward or forward, attains to an eternal state.

In a world of constant change, the fundamentals are more important than ever.

Our souls, shame-wounded by our sins, cling to us yet more, a woman to her lover clinging, the more the more.

My eyes were often full of tears (I could not tell why) and at times a flood from my heart seemed to pour itself out.

We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.

The challenge is not just to build a company that can endure; but to build one that is worthy of enduring.

We can not overestimate the fervent love of liberty, the intelligent courage, and the sum of common sense with which our fathers made the great experiment of self-government.

For love of country, they accepted death.

Psychology is still trying to explain the perception of the position of an object in space, along with its shape, size, and so on, and to understand the sensations of color.

The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords.

Let's be cautious about relying so much on material things that we have no energy left for the spiritual aspects of our lives.

With such wisdom has nature ordered things in the economy of this world, that the destruction of one continent is not brought about without the renovation of the earth in the production of another.

A productive coaching relationship begins with two people with fires in their bellies: one who wants desperately to move forward and another who yearns to help that person make the journey.

Easter, so longed for, is gone in a day.

At the heart of our misunderstanding and infantile behavior is the wish for a miracle cure.

The salient fact about the decades ahead is that we are entering a permanent global energy crisis and it will change everything about how we live.

We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have a sense of what we are, who we are, what our goals are, and what we take life to be.

Americans are suffering so much from being in unrewarding environments that it has made us very cynical. I think that American suburbia has become a powerful generator of anxiety and depression.

Suburbia is the insidious cartoon of the country house in a cartoon of the country.

I went to a shrink once, but I caught him going to a fortune-teller so I quit.

There's nothing more boring than actors talking about acting.

The future is like heaven-everyone exalts it but no one wants to go there now.

You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity.