Inspiration Quote by Iris Murdoch — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.”

“I am looking out of my window in an anxious and resentful state of mind, oblivious to my surroundings, brooding perhaps on some damage done to my prestige. Then suddenly I observe a hovering kestrel. In a moment everything is altered. The brooding self with its hurt vanity has disappeared. There is nothing now but kestrel. And when I return to thinking of the other matter it seems less important”

“We can only learn to love by loving.”

“Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.”

“Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.”

“Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.”

“There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.”

“Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.”

“By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.”