Create Yours

Top 30 Clare Pooley Quotes (2025 Update)

Clare Pooley Quote: “Preparation is the key to effective spontaneity.”

1. “Preparation is the key to effective spontaneity.”

— Clare Pooley

Clare Pooley Quote: “Tai chi is about the balance of yin and yang. If you use hardness to resist force, then both sides will break. Tai chi meets hardness with softness, so incoming force exhausts itself. It is philosophy for life also. You understand?”

2. “Tai chi is about the balance of yin and yang. If you use hardness to resist force, then both sides will break. Tai chi meets hardness with softness, so incoming force exhausts itself. It is philosophy for life also. You understand?”

— Clare Pooley

Clare Pooley Quote: “Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in. – LEONARD COHEN.”

3. “Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in. – LEONARD COHEN.”

— Clare Pooley

Clare Pooley Quote: “They want us to be small, so we have to stand tall. They want us to be invisible, so we have to be seen. They want us to be quiet, so we have to be heard. They want us to surrender, so we have to fight.”

4. “They want us to be small, so we have to stand tall. They want us to be invisible, so we have to be seen. They want us to be quiet, so we have to be heard. They want us to surrender, so we have to fight.”

— Clare Pooley

Clare Pooley Quote: “Tai chi meets hardness with softness, so incoming force exhausts itself. It is philosophy for life also.”

5. “Tai chi meets hardness with softness, so incoming force exhausts itself. It is philosophy for life also.”

— Clare Pooley

Clare Pooley Quote: “Darling, what is the point of being alive if you go through life unnoticed, without standing out and making waves?”

6. “Darling, what is the point of being alive if you go through life unnoticed, without standing out and making waves?”

— Clare Pooley

Clare Pooley Quote: “After I left, I learned to be my own sun.”

7. “After I left, I learned to be my own sun.”

— Clare Pooley

Clare Pooley Quote: “But sometimes when you put two very different people together, a kind of magic, an alchemy, occurs. Bea said I was like eggs and sugar, and she was flour and butter, and when you mixed us together, we were more than just the combination of our ingredients, we were the whole damn cake.”

8. “But sometimes when you put two very different people together, a kind of magic, an alchemy, occurs. Bea said I was like eggs and sugar, and she was flour and butter, and when you mixed us together, we were more than just the combination of our ingredients, we were the whole damn cake.”

— Clare Pooley

Clare Pooley Quote: “The only way to be guaranteed of failure, dear boy, is not to try,’ said Iona. ‘Love is the greatest risk of all, but a life without it is meaningless.”

9. “The only way to be guaranteed of failure, dear boy, is not to try,’ said Iona. ‘Love is the greatest risk of all, but a life without it is meaningless.”

— Clare Pooley

Clare Pooley Quote: “You have such energy. You’re like the sun. When you’re interested in someone, you turn your rays towards them and they luxuriate in your warmth. But then you turn somewhere else, leaving them in the shadow, and they spend all their energy trying to recreate the memory of your light.”

10. “You have such energy. You’re like the sun. When you’re interested in someone, you turn your rays towards them and they luxuriate in your warmth. But then you turn somewhere else, leaving them in the shadow, and they spend all their energy trying to recreate the memory of your light.”

— Clare Pooley

Clare Pooley Quote: “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift,” she’d chant to herself as she brushed her teeth. “It’s not happy people who are grateful, it’s grateful people who are happy,” she’d say as she brushed her hair.”

11. “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift,” she’d chant to herself as she brushed her teeth. “It’s not happy people who are grateful, it’s grateful people who are happy,” she’d say as she brushed her hair.”

— Clare Pooley

Clare Pooley Quote: “My biological clock is ticking so loudly that it’s keeping me awake at night.”

12. “My biological clock is ticking so loudly that it’s keeping me awake at night.”

— Clare Pooley

Clare Pooley Quote: “The truth often isn’t pretty. It’s not aspirational. It doesn’t fit neatly into a little square on Instagram.”

13. “The truth often isn’t pretty. It’s not aspirational. It doesn’t fit neatly into a little square on Instagram.”

— Clare Pooley

Clare Pooley Quote: “Surely it would be better to live a messy, flawed, sometimes not very pretty life that was real and honest, than to constantly try to live up to a life of perfection that was actually a sham?”

14. “Surely it would be better to live a messy, flawed, sometimes not very pretty life that was real and honest, than to constantly try to live up to a life of perfection that was actually a sham?”

— Clare Pooley

Clare Pooley Quote: “Anxiety is a sign that you’re pushing boundaries, moving forward, grabbing the bull by the horns. IT IS GOOD.”

15. “Anxiety is a sign that you’re pushing boundaries, moving forward, grabbing the bull by the horns. IT IS GOOD.”

— Clare Pooley

Clare Pooley Quote: “Besides,’ continued Julian, ’you can slam down a phone like that. You can’t slam down a mobile. Imagine, a whole generation who’ll never know the joy of slamming down a phone.”

16. “Besides,’ continued Julian, ’you can slam down a phone like that. You can’t slam down a mobile. Imagine, a whole generation who’ll never know the joy of slamming down a phone.”

— Clare Pooley

Clare Pooley Quote: “When we first come here in 1973, two men came to restaurant and say, ‘Go back to China and take your filthy, foreign food with you.’ I say, ‘You are angry. Anger comes from stomach. Sit. I bring you soup. For free. It will make you feel better.’ They ate my wonton soup. Recipe from my grandmother. They have been customers of restaurant for forty years. Meet force with softness. Recipe for life. Now you understand.” And, strangely, he did.”

17. “When we first come here in 1973, two men came to restaurant and say, ‘Go back to China and take your filthy, foreign food with you.’ I say, ‘You are angry. Anger comes from stomach. Sit. I bring you soup. For free. It will make you feel better.’ They ate my wonton soup. Recipe from my grandmother. They have been customers of restaurant for forty years. Meet force with softness. Recipe for life. Now you understand.” And, strangely, he did.”

— Clare Pooley

Clare Pooley Quote: “How much time did her ovaries have left? Were they already packing their suitcases for a relaxing retirement on the Costa Brava?”

18. “How much time did her ovaries have left? Were they already packing their suitcases for a relaxing retirement on the Costa Brava?”

— Clare Pooley

Clare Pooley Quote: “Monica, why does everything have to have a point? Why does it all have to be part of a plan? Sometimes it’s best to let things just grow naturally, like wildflowers.”

19. “Monica, why does everything have to have a point? Why does it all have to be part of a plan? Sometimes it’s best to let things just grow naturally, like wildflowers.”

— Clare Pooley

Clare Pooley Quote: “It makes me furious that as men age, they gain gravitas. They become “silver foxes.” Women, however, become invisible. We cannot allow this to happen, my friends. We must all be more Iona. We all deserve, like Iona, to have a Triumphant Second Act.”

20. “It makes me furious that as men age, they gain gravitas. They become “silver foxes.” Women, however, become invisible. We cannot allow this to happen, my friends. We must all be more Iona. We all deserve, like Iona, to have a Triumphant Second Act.”

— Clare Pooley

Clare Pooley Quote: “Meet force with softness. Recipe for life. Now you understand.’ And, strangely, he did.”

21. “Meet force with softness. Recipe for life. Now you understand.’ And, strangely, he did.”

— Clare Pooley

Clare Pooley Quote: “No woman is anyone’s “other half”. We are all entire people. Completely whole, and totally unique. But sometimes when you put two very different whole people together, a kind of magic, an alchemy, occurs.”

22. “No woman is anyone’s “other half”. We are all entire people. Completely whole, and totally unique. But sometimes when you put two very different whole people together, a kind of magic, an alchemy, occurs.”

— Clare Pooley

Clare Pooley Quote: “One of the benefits of being an artist is that you spend so much time watching people, looking not just at all the shades and contours of their faces, but into their souls. It gives you an almost uncanny insight.”

23. “One of the benefits of being an artist is that you spend so much time watching people, looking not just at all the shades and contours of their faces, but into their souls. It gives you an almost uncanny insight.”

— Clare Pooley

Clare Pooley Quote: “Everyone lies about their lives. What would happen if you shared the truth instead? The one thing that defines you, that makes everything else about you fall into place? Not on the internet, but with those real people around you?”

24. “Everyone lies about their lives. What would happen if you shared the truth instead? The one thing that defines you, that makes everything else about you fall into place? Not on the internet, but with those real people around you?”

— Clare Pooley

Clare Pooley Quote: “Only a really great friend realises that there are few situations that can’t be improved by great stationery.”

25. “Only a really great friend realises that there are few situations that can’t be improved by great stationery.”

— Clare Pooley

Clare Pooley Quote: “Then he’d discovered that routines were crucial. They created buoys he could cling to to keep himself afloat.”

26. “Then he’d discovered that routines were crucial. They created buoys he could cling to to keep himself afloat.”

— Clare Pooley

Clare Pooley Quote: “That’s the thing about the wine witch. She cuts brilliant lives short, and ensures that others are only half lived. She makes children grow up thinking it is normal for adults to drink all evening, every evening. She fixes it so mothers are woken up in the middle of the night by a stranger telling them their only child was found dead in a ditch, next to someone she barely knew.”

27. “That’s the thing about the wine witch. She cuts brilliant lives short, and ensures that others are only half lived. She makes children grow up thinking it is normal for adults to drink all evening, every evening. She fixes it so mothers are woken up in the middle of the night by a stranger telling them their only child was found dead in a ditch, next to someone she barely knew.”

— Clare Pooley

Clare Pooley Quote: “Hazard noted Monica’s use of a colon. It looked a little incongruous. He didn’t think people did grammar anymore. They barely did writing. Just texts, and emojis.”

28. “Hazard noted Monica’s use of a colon. It looked a little incongruous. He didn’t think people did grammar anymore. They barely did writing. Just texts, and emojis.”

— Clare Pooley

Clare Pooley Quote: “If you’re going to get it wrong, Martha, make sure you get it wrong with PANACHE! Surely they’ll give you a mark for style, at least?”

29. “If you’re going to get it wrong, Martha, make sure you get it wrong with PANACHE! Surely they’ll give you a mark for style, at least?”

— Clare Pooley

Clare Pooley Quote: “He had the rather uncomfortable feeling that he only really existed in the eye of the beholder, that when he stopped being noticed, he actually stopped being. Did that make him horribly shallow? And if so, did it matter?”

30. “He had the rather uncomfortable feeling that he only really existed in the eye of the beholder, that when he stopped being noticed, he actually stopped being. Did that make him horribly shallow? And if so, did it matter?”

— Clare Pooley

Clare Pooley Quote: “How extraordinary that she had been envying Monica’s life, when all the time all Monica wanted was what she took most for granted.”

31. “How extraordinary that she had been envying Monica’s life, when all the time all Monica wanted was what she took most for granted.”

— Clare Pooley

Clare Pooley Quote: “She thought of all her new friends, with their lives that didn’t look beautiful on an Instagram square, yet who were so much deeper, stronger and more interesting than that.”

32. “She thought of all her new friends, with their lives that didn’t look beautiful on an Instagram square, yet who were so much deeper, stronger and more interesting than that.”

— Clare Pooley

Motivational Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

Positive Quotes

Positive Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Motivational Quotes

INSPIRATIONAL SUCCESS MOTIVATIONAL

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

ENTREPRENEURSHIP BUSINESS INSPIRATIONAL

Positive Quotes

Positive Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

ENTREPRENEURSHIP BUSINESS INSPIRATIONAL

Steve Jobs Quotes

Steve Jobs Quotes

ENTREPRENEURSHIP BUSINESS APPLE

Inspirational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

COURAGE MOTIVATIONAL STRENGTH

INSPIRATIONAL SUCCESS MOTIVATIONAL

Swami Vivekananda Quotes

Swami Vivekananda Quotes

LIFE SPIRITUALITY

Save image...
Permalink
Open in new tab
Copy quote text

Beautiful Wallpapers and Images

We hope you enjoyed our collection of 30 Clare Pooley Quotes.

All the images on this page were created with QuoteFancy Studio.

Use QuoteFancy Studio to create high-quality images for your desktop backgrounds, blog posts, presentations, social media, videos, posters, and more.

Thank you!

Please check your email.