Havelock Ellis

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#art #fine #go #holding #holding on

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#alive #dragon #keeping #love #pretence

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#achieve #achieved #better #could #ever

Dreams are real while they last. Can we say more of life? ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#dreams

Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#know #learn #lies #life #never

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#forms #grades #higher #kind #lower

The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#average #contribute #details #effect #enjoyable

Every artist writes his own autobiography. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#artist #autobiography #every #his #own

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#arts #beautiful #because #dancing #itself

Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life? ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#last #life #long #more #real