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Top 20 Marion Milner Quotes (2025 Update)

Marion Milner Quote: “Love is not getting, but giving. It is sacrifice. And sacrifice is glorious!”

1. “Love is not getting, but giving. It is sacrifice. And sacrifice is glorious!”

— Marion Milner

Marion Milner Quote: “I began to have an idea of my life, not as slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.”

2. “I began to have an idea of my life, not as slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.”

— Marion Milner

Marion Milner Quote: “The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.”

3. “The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.”

— Marion Milner

Marion Milner Quote: “Once you assume your right to interfere in other people’s problems they become in some ways more of a worry than your own, for with your own you can at least do what you think best, but other people always show such a persistent tendency to do the wrong thing.”

4. “Once you assume your right to interfere in other people’s problems they become in some ways more of a worry than your own, for with your own you can at least do what you think best, but other people always show such a persistent tendency to do the wrong thing.”

— Marion Milner

Marion Milner Quote: “Perhaps if one really knew when one was happy one would know the things that were necessary in one’s life.”

5. “Perhaps if one really knew when one was happy one would know the things that were necessary in one’s life.”

— Marion Milner

Marion Milner Quote: “I used to worry about what life was for – now being alive seems sufficient reason.”

6. “I used to worry about what life was for – now being alive seems sufficient reason.”

— Marion Milner

Marion Milner Quote: “I want to feel myself part of things, of the great drift and swirl: not cut off, missing things, like being sent to bed early as a child, the blinds being drawn while the sun and cheerful voices came through the chink from the garden.”

7. “I want to feel myself part of things, of the great drift and swirl: not cut off, missing things, like being sent to bed early as a child, the blinds being drawn while the sun and cheerful voices came through the chink from the garden.”

— Marion Milner

Marion Milner Quote: “The aim of the painting is that the eye should find out what it likes.”

8. “The aim of the painting is that the eye should find out what it likes.”

— Marion Milner

Marion Milner Quote: “Happiness not only needs no justification, but it is also the only final test of whether what I am doing is right for me. Only of course happiness is not the same as pleasure; it includes the pain of losing as well as the pleasure of finding.”

9. “Happiness not only needs no justification, but it is also the only final test of whether what I am doing is right for me. Only of course happiness is not the same as pleasure; it includes the pain of losing as well as the pleasure of finding.”

— Marion Milner

Marion Milner Quote: “It’s weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them.”

10. “It’s weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them.”

— Marion Milner

Marion Milner Quote: “Colour is, on the evidence of language alone, very bound up with the feelings.”

11. “Colour is, on the evidence of language alone, very bound up with the feelings.”

— Marion Milner

Marion Milner Quote: “There seemed to be endless obstacles – it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.”

12. “There seemed to be endless obstacles – it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.”

— Marion Milner

Marion Milner Quote: “Here then was a deadlock. I wanted to get the most out of life, but the more I tried to grasp, the more I felt that I was ever outside, missing things. At that time I could not understand at all that my real purpose might be to learn to have no purposes.”

13. “Here then was a deadlock. I wanted to get the most out of life, but the more I tried to grasp, the more I felt that I was ever outside, missing things. At that time I could not understand at all that my real purpose might be to learn to have no purposes.”

— Marion Milner

Marion Milner Quote: “Sometimes I find that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.”

14. “Sometimes I find that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.”

— Marion Milner

Marion Milner Quote: “There seemed to be endless obstacles preventing me from living with my eyes open, but as I gradually followed up clue after clue it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.”

15. “There seemed to be endless obstacles preventing me from living with my eyes open, but as I gradually followed up clue after clue it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.”

— Marion Milner

Marion Milner Quote: “Let no one think it is an easy way because it is concerned with moments of happiness rather than with stern duty or high moral endeavour. For what is really easy, as I found, is to blind one’s eyes to what one really likes, to drift into accepting one’s wants ready-made from other people, and to evade the continual day to day sifting of values. And finally, let no one undertake such an experiment who is not prepared to find himself more of a fool than he thought.”

16. “Let no one think it is an easy way because it is concerned with moments of happiness rather than with stern duty or high moral endeavour. For what is really easy, as I found, is to blind one’s eyes to what one really likes, to drift into accepting one’s wants ready-made from other people, and to evade the continual day to day sifting of values. And finally, let no one undertake such an experiment who is not prepared to find himself more of a fool than he thought.”

— Marion Milner

Marion Milner Quote: “I want to draw and study a few things closely by feeling, not thinking.”

17. “I want to draw and study a few things closely by feeling, not thinking.”

— Marion Milner

Marion Milner Quote: “I did not know that I could only get the most out of life by giving myself up to it.”

18. “I did not know that I could only get the most out of life by giving myself up to it.”

— Marion Milner

Marion Milner Quote: “It struck me as odd that it had taken me so long to reach a feeling of sureness that there was something in me that would get on with the job of living without my continual tampering. I suppose I did not really reach it until I had discovered how to sink down beneath the level of chattering thoughts and simply feel what it meant to be alive.”

19. “It struck me as odd that it had taken me so long to reach a feeling of sureness that there was something in me that would get on with the job of living without my continual tampering. I suppose I did not really reach it until I had discovered how to sink down beneath the level of chattering thoughts and simply feel what it meant to be alive.”

— Marion Milner

Marion Milner Quote: “I saw that to see only the ridiculousness of humanity was just as misleading as to see only its dignity, that what one said or thought about a thing must always be a distortion, that the mistake was to believe that any one expression could be the last word, for experience was always bigger that the formula.”

20. “I saw that to see only the ridiculousness of humanity was just as misleading as to see only its dignity, that what one said or thought about a thing must always be a distortion, that the mistake was to believe that any one expression could be the last word, for experience was always bigger that the formula.”

— Marion Milner

Marion Milner Quote: “If just looking could be so satisfying, why was I always striving to have things or to get things done? Certainly I had never suspected that the key to my private reality might lie in so apparently simple a skill as the ability to let the senses roam unfettered by purposes. I began to wonder whether eyes and ears might not have a wisdom of their own.”

21. “If just looking could be so satisfying, why was I always striving to have things or to get things done? Certainly I had never suspected that the key to my private reality might lie in so apparently simple a skill as the ability to let the senses roam unfettered by purposes. I began to wonder whether eyes and ears might not have a wisdom of their own.”

— Marion Milner

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