Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The dawning of the light of awareness is the new birth, where the sun rises and the day breaks within you.
The life of every river sings its own song, but in most the song is long marred by the discords of misuse.
The art of land doctoring is being practiced with vigor, but the science of land health is yet to be born.
The love goes where it wants; you hear it rustling but you do not know where it's going and where it goes.
Beth: "You're ridiculous." Xavier: "I think you mean irresistible." Beth: "Yes, ridiculously irresistible.
I used to dream about turning back time, about reclaiming the things I'd lost and the person I used to be.
I always knew mum loved me - tough, look-after-yourself love, as if she knew she wouldn't always be there.
If we have authentic, honest, earthy materials in our houses, we'll be more authentic, honest and natural.
The finance enchains with golden bonds states and peoples, the economy becomes nomadic, the life uprooted.
I'm always struck with writing - I constantly feel like I don't know what I'm doing and I'm starting over.
Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism.
My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
Smoking is similar to hitting yourself over the head with a hammer because, when you stop, you feel better
I was quite pleased that Prince Philip didn't say anything like, I hate queers! He was quite well behaved.
I'm interested in the things that might seem slight or amusing but which I feel have a kind of profundity.
The very old certainly do not go back on lunch remains but they do bite back at old conversational topics.
Magic is always there. Sometimes it just takes an artist to find it and show the rest of us where to look.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
I only believe in fire. Life. Fire. Being myself on fire I set others on fire. Never death. Fire and life.
The Cold War may be 'over' for the West. For the Soviets it has entered a new, active and promising phase.
Few are they who have never had a chance to achieve happiness- and fewer those who have taken that chance.
A great man's manias must be respected, because the time required to combat them is too precious to waste.
I knew a man who had been virtually drowned and then revived. He said that his death had not been painful.
I wanted to show young people that taking a stand can be done by simply standing firm in your convictions.
The situations that have been the biggest wins for me have been because I was forced to think differently.
My heart shifted a little in my chest; it seemed to swell and beat against my bones until I couldn't hear.
He used to say we all had a compass inside of us and what we needed to do was to find it and to follow it.
It may look perfect, but that's one thing I have learned about life is that it isn't always what it looks.
That little burning bush that is the signature of the blog - it echoes Elizabeth Barrett Browning's words.
So my blog wasn't about "platform" but really, it was everything you are not "supposed" to do in blogging.
Get a life. A real life. Not a manic pursuit of the next promotion, the bigger paycheck, the larger house.
If I haven't any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself.
Can you write a book and have children at the same time? Yes, if you're content to do it very very slowly.
I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.
Do you know what it means to be loved by Death?... Do you know what it means to have Death know your name?
Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, surely.
Making a film, I've learned, can be an exhausting process, due to the need for backing, distribution, etc.
An Eskimo shaman said, Life's greatest danger lies in the fact that man's food consists entirely of souls.
A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.
It's not the meaning of life we seek but our aliveness. Once we have that, the meaning of life is obvious.
Insight is not the same as scientific deduction, but even at that it may be more reliable than statistics.
If a person wants to be hurt and enjoys suffering, then there is no reason not to indulge him in his wont.
I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me.
I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell.
We take better care of our smartphone than ourselves. We know when the battery is depleted and recharge it
The more fearless we are in our personal lives, the more of that spirit we'll bring to changing our world.
The American people ought to know that it is not them, but their government's policies, that are so hated.
I think my eyes were knocked open and they don't close. I sometimes wish I could close them and look away.