Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Marion Milner (‘Joanna Field’) (British Psychoanalyst)

Marion Milner (1900–98,) also Marion Blackett-Milner, was a British writer and psychoanalyst who contributed to the understanding of symbolization and interpenetration in the thinking process. Outside psychotherapeutic circles, she is better known by her alias, Joanna Field, as a pioneer of reflective journaling.

Born in London, Milner studied psychology at the University of London and wrote The Human Problem in Schools (1938) based on her research in educational child psychology. Milner’s first book under the alias Joanna Field, A Life of One’s Own (1934,) and future autobiographical works, An Experiment in Leisure (1937) and Eternity’s Sunrise: A Way of Keeping a Diary (1987,) are remembered for their exceptionally original observations and discoveries about herself. Her On Not Being Able to Paint (1950) develops an open drawing technique that she declared creates external objects and the structure of one’s feelings and thoughts.

Milner became a psychoanalyst in 1943 and practiced in London. The Hands of the Living God (1969) is the moving story of an ill patient who expresses her emotions through drawing. The Suppressed Madness of Sane Men, Forty-Four Years of Exploring Psychoanalysis (1987) summed up her observations on the relationship between psychoanalysis and creativity.

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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.
Marion Milner (‘Joanna Field’)

There seemed to be endless obstacles … it seemed that the root of cause of them all was fear.
Marion Milner (‘Joanna Field’)
Topics: Fear

The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.
Marion Milner (‘Joanna Field’)
Topics: Understanding, Growth

I used to trouble about what life was for—now being alive seems sufficient reason.
Marion Milner (‘Joanna Field’)
Topics: Life and Living, Worry

It’s weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them.
Marion Milner (‘Joanna Field’)
Topics: Courage to Begin, Courage, Success, Secrets of Success

Sometimes I found that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.
Marion Milner (‘Joanna Field’)
Topics: Resilience

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