Quotes by Joanna Field

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Writer and psychoanalyst · British · 1900–1998

British writer and psychoanalyst (1900–1998)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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
clues fear living obstacles

“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
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
action

“It's weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them.”
— Joanna Field
courage

“Sometimes I found that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.”
— Joanna Field
difficult days

“There seemed to be endless obstacles ... it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.”
— Joanna Field
fear

“There seemed to be endless obstacles-it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.”
— Joanna Field
fear

“It is weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them.”
— Joanna Field
success

“The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.”
— Joanna Field
time

“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
action