Every island to a child is a treasure island.
P. D. JamesRead
If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed to celibacy. In no area of human experience are human beings more convinced that something better can be had only if they persevere.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes that initial experiences often do not define one's future potential, especially in relationships and intimacy.
P. D. James suggests that many people tend to dwell on their early sexual experiences and may judge their future sexual life based on those youthful trials. However, it is through perseverance and exploration that individuals can achieve deeper satisfaction and fulfillment, highlighting the importance of growth and learning from past experiences.
In practice
This quote would be great for a relationship workshop focusing on personal growth.
Every island to a child is a treasure island.
If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.
I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.
What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.
Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other people. Nothing that happens to a writer – however happy, however tragic – is ever wasted.
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.
He wanted her. He knew where to find her. He waited. It amused him to wait, because he knew that the waiting was unbearable to her. He knew that his absence bound her to him in a manner more complete and humiliating than his presence could enforce. He was giving her time to attempt an escape, in order to let her know her own helplessness when he chose to see her again.
I've always tried to balance my life with what is good for me but also keeping in mind how it affects somebody else.
There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows, and you can never tell them. You cheapen yourself, the inside of yourself, when you tell them.
The ladies here probably exchanged looks which meant, 'Men never know when things are dirty or not;' and the gentlemen perhaps thought each to himself, 'Women will have their little nonsense and needless cares.'
But now his dry and silent grieving for his lost wife must end, for there she stood, the fierce, recalcitrant, and fragile stranger, forever to be won again.
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