Caroline Myss Quotes

Managing the power of choice, with all it's creative and spiritual implications, is the essence of the human experience.

Caroline Myss

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• When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Internet
  • Old
  • Computers

• I finally moved out of my parent's house. It was only fair to let my sister have her own room.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • House
  • Sister
  • Parent

• Thankfully, President Obama has stood firmly behind women's health care issues by supporting coverage for contraception and reaffirming commitment to organizations like Planned Parenthood.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Women
  • Health
  • Commitment

• Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.

  

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Experience

• Most artists, their 60th show was in front of no one. My first show was in front of 1,200 people.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • First
  • Show

• I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Read
  • Because
  • Shakespeare

• I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.

  

  Yael Stone
  • People
  • Work
  • Happy

• Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Heart
  • Business
  • Smart

• What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my best qualities is that I used whatever other people found to be an adverse thing to be a positive thing for myself.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • People
  • Myself
  • Best

• Every time you work is a challenge. There's a constant worry about it, and it's a side of acting I don't like.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Time
  • Work
  • Challenge

• You know, I've never done karaoke, ever. It makes me nervous - I think it's the lack of the guitar and just a microphone.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • Done
  • Think
  • Me

• Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.

  

  Camilo Jose Cela
  • Literature
  • Lives
  • Times

• A young man who is here speaks the Panis language, and in many other respects, is preferable.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Man
  • Language
  • Young

• I've been surprised at how much an unknown like myself can accomplish just by reaching out to people and pleading my case. Quotes for the book cover, reviews and interviews, readings and radio appearances - all this by simply moving ahead and making contact with folks I thought might enjoy the writing.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • People
  • Writing
  • Book

• This place, if I could describe this place, no place around me, there’s no end to me, I don’t know what it is, it isn’t flesh, it doesn’t end, it’s like air…

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Air

• Some terror in the swishing tall grass seemed added to that of the diabolically pounding sea, and I started up crying aloud and disjointedly, 'Tiger? Tiger? Is it Tiger? Beast? Beast? Is it a Beast that I am afraid of?'

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Up
  • Sea
  • Crying

• I work in a small study on the top floor of a brownstone in Brooklyn - it's about 75 square feet, 11 taken up by book shelves along one wall.

  

  Kathryn Harrison
  • Up
  • Work
  • Book

• A perfectly fitted sheath dress that can take you from day to night is something that every woman should have in her closet. You can't go wrong with black, but a little bit of color is nice. I love a lot of color, personally. You can accessorize a sheath dress. Look at how Michelle Obama accessorizes clothes to make them her own.

  

  Jason Wu
  • Night
  • Black
  • Nice

• One time, I came off stage and a guy named Roman Decare, God rest his soul, he was a comic. 'Louie, if you do that family stuff, and you're a clean comic on stage, you'll become famous.' And, for some reason, a switch clicked, and I started doing the family stuff, and it became a giant part of my life.

  

  Louie Anderson
  • Life
  • Time
  • God

• I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.

  

  Anna Deavere Smith

• My wife is one of the best wimin on this Continent, altho' she isn't always gentle as a lamb with mint sauce.

  

  Charles Farrar Browne
  • She
  • Wife

• Economy is the first and great article (economy such as I understand it) in my financial creed. The controversy between direct and indirect taxation holds a minor, though important place.

  

  William E. Gladstone
  • Important
  • Financial
  • Economy

• Our debts don't leave us much in terms of choices. We can choose to pay now or try to pay later. But the longer we wait the steeper the bill.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Choices
  • Bill
  • Debts

• Managing the power of choice, with all it's creative and spiritual implications, is the essence of the human experience.

  

  Caroline Myss
  • Spiritual
  • Choices
  • Creative