Sylvia Ashton-Warner Short Quotes

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What a desire!... to live in peace with that word: Myself.

Sylvia Ashton-Warner
Self-forgetfulness in creativity can lead to self-transcendence.

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In no time the conversation was leaping like canoes with the tide.

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There is only one answer to destructiveness and that is creativity.

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To feel as well as hear what someone says requires whole attention.

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Love has the quality of informing almost everything — even one's work.

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It's just as possible to live to the full in a narrow corner as it is in bigness.

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A comforting acquaintance, hope, a contagious thing like spring, inebriating like lager.

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Children have two visions, the inner and the outer. Of the two the inner vision is brighter.

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I see the mind of a five-year-old as a volcano with two vents; destructiveness and creativeness.

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I'm inclined to think that eating is a private thing and should be done alone, like other bodily functions.

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When love turns away, now, I don't follow it. I sit and suffer, unprotesting, until I feel the tread of another step.

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Being always overavid, I demand from those I love a love equal to mine, which, being balanced people, they cannot supply.

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Of the two kinds of order, the conscious and the unconscious order, only one is real. It's the order in the deep hidden places.

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Education, fundamentally, is the increase of the percentage of the conscious in relation to the unconscious. It must be a developing idea.

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It is not so much the content of what one says as the way in which one says it. However important the thing you say, what's the good of it if not heard or, being heard, not felt?

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Inspiration is the richest nation I know, the most powerful on earth. Sexual energy Freud calls it; the capital of desire I call it; it pays for both mental and physical expenditure.

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We already have so much pressure towards sameness through radio, film and comic outside the school, that we can't afford to do a thing inside that is not toward individual development.

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Not just part of us becomes a teacher. It engages the whole self — the woman or man, wife or husband, mother or father, the lover, scholar or artist in you as well as the teacher earning money.

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