“I feel much younger at thirty than I did at twenty; firmer and stronger both in mind and body.”— Beatrix Potter, amazon.comTagged: Age, Youth, Health, physical health
“Saw Oscar Wilde and his wife just going into the Fine Arts to see the Holman Hunt. He is not peculiar as far as I noticed, rather a fine looking gentleman, but inclined to stoutness. The lady was strangely dressed, but I did not know her in time to see well.”— Beatrix Potter, amazon.comTagged: description, character, humor
“I don't want lessons, I want practice. I hope it is not pride that makes me so stiff against teaching, but a bad or indifferent teacher is worse than none.”— Beatrix Potter, amazon.comTagged: Lessons, Learning, practice, Teaching, teaching methods
“This day last year, how time moves and what it brings! So cold and stormy, and yet such gleams of peace and light making the darkness stranger and more dreary. How will it end for me?”— Beatrix Potter, amazon.comTagged: Weather, description, Poetic, Storms, Life
“It is all the same, drawing, painting, modelling, the irresistible desire to copy any beautiful object which strikes the eye.”— Beatrix Potter, amazon.comTagged: Desire, motivation, Create, creating, Art
“I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.”— Beatrix Potter, amazon.comTagged: Childhood, Memories, Innocence, Imagination, play
“What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense, to fear no longer the terror that flieth by night, yet to feel truly and understand a little, a very little, of the story of life.”— Beatrix Potter, amazon.comTagged: Childhood, Innocence, Imagination, Life, Living
“All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. . . . Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.”— Beatrix Potter, amazon.comTagged: Religion, Belief, Strife, Power, empowerment