E.L. James Quotes

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

Individuality is founded in feeling

Tell him to live by yes and no - yes to everything good, no to everything bad.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling.

We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

For I had often said that the best argument I knew for an immortal life was the existence of a man who deserved one as well as Child did.

Unfortunately, only a small number of patients with peptic ulcer are financially able to make a pet of an ulcer.

A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.

I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

But what is life if you don't live it?

Just go with it', he thought. 'You won't figure out anything if you give in to fear'.

And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about.

History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.

We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters.

Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel.

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.

Bad feeling is a country no woman want to visit. So they take good feeling any which way it come. Sometime that good feeling come by taking on a different kind of bad feeling.

The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.

Imagination is the air of mind.

Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.

Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory

Writers turn dreams into print.

War is an option of difficulties.

If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.

The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude.

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

A sneer is the weapon of the weak.

Mistakes are often the best teachers.

Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.

Much of my good fortune was a matter of nothing more clever on my part than luck.

I feel very happy to see the sun come up every day. I feel happy to be around. ... I like to take this day- any day-and go to town with it.

We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts.

Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.

Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.

Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.

I don't know if anybody's ever ready for another award season. It's kind of like Christmas.

You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.

Just like the poles of a magnet, some people are drawn to death and others are repulsed by it, but we all have to deal with it.

I would like to attend college in the future when I have time. I have always been interested in architecture, so perhaps I would pursue a degree in that or business.

A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

You destroy the initiative of the working people if they don't feel they have a fighting chance to be a part of the American Dream.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

If we can find forgiveness in our hearts for those who have caused us hurt and injury, we will rise to a higher level of self-esteem and well-being.