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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.

Joanna Field

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.

Tags: clues, fear, living, obstacles

Sometimes I found that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.

Joanna Field

Sometimes I found that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.

Tags: difficult, days

About Author
Marion Milner (1900–1998), sometimes known as Marion Blackett-Milner, was a British writer and psychoanalyst. Outside psychotherapeutic circles, she is better known by her pseudonym, Joanna Field, as a pioneer of introspective journaling.

It is weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them.

Joanna Field

It is weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them.

Tags: success

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

Joanna Field

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

Tags: time

I now see my life, not as a slow shaping of achievment to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery of a purpose which I did not know.

Joanna Field

I now see my life, not as a slow shaping of achievment to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery of a purpose which I did not know.

Tags: growth, inspirational, life lessons

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

Joanna Field

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

Tags: action

There seemed to be endless obstacles-it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.

Joanna Field

There seemed to be endless obstacles-it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.

Tags: fear

It's weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them.

Joanna Field

It's weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them.

Tags: courage, goals, women, s, movement