How attraction works, making one's body almost painfully alive and one's thoughts concentrated, also painfully. And the truth of these powerful attractions - they have their own morality and nothing else matters. Elizabeth Hay More Quotes by Elizabeth Hay More Quotes From Elizabeth Hay You stand next to the sea and you're in touch with all your longings and all your losses. Elizabeth Hay next sea loss And when is it ever convincing, the belief others have in your abilities? You know perfectly well they can't see the mess inside you. Elizabeth Hay ability wells belief A child lies like a grey pebble on the shore until a certain teacher picks him up and dips him in water, and suddenly you see all the colours and patterns in the dull stone, and it’s marvelous for the stone and marvelous for the teacher. Elizabeth Hay teacher lying children She would always be living her life backwards, she realized, trying to regain something perfect that she'd lost. Elizabeth Hay perfect lost trying We look so very different from the way we sound. It’s a shock, similar to hearing your own voice for the first time, when you’re forced to wonder how the rest of you comes across if you sound nothing like the way you think you sound. You feel dislodged from the old shoe of yourself. Elizabeth Hay shoes voice thinking Movement always helps. A world of thoughts occurred to her whenever she rode a train, and a lesser world whenever she went for a walk. Elizabeth Hay movement helping world