You stand next to the sea and you're in touch with all your longings and all your losses.

- Elizabeth Hay

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

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 pat…

- Elizabeth Hay

How attraction works, making one's body almost painfully alive and one's thoughts concentrated, also painfully. And the truth of these powerful attra…

- Elizabeth Hay

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

She would always be living her life backwards, she realized, trying to regain something perfect that she'd lost.

- Elizabeth Hay

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…

- Elizabeth Hay