Caroline Myss Quotes
The goal of the human experience is to transform ourselves from being who long to attain power in the physical world to beings who are empowered from within.
Quotes to Explore
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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I used to sail a lot in all kinds of weather, competing on small sailboats in the ocean. And I travel a lot in Iceland on horses every summer, through the wild areas where there's no inhabitants and there are volcanoes.
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You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.
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It doesn't matter if you don't have a complete set of anything because repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern.
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Because of my crazy work schedule, I have become something of a master at changing my clothes while driving. The men driving next to me love it.
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When you have balance in your life, work becomes an entirely different experience. There is a passion that moves you to a whole new level of fulfillment and gratitude, and that's when you can do your best... for yourself and for others.
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When something is troubling me, people know about it.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it.
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I'm not really a girl who likes to go out to lunch or cocktails or store openings.
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In chamber music, the audience can hear each instrument and understand (and feel) what the composer and the musicians have in mind as they play.
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The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself.
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I haven't really done a lot of comedy. It's something that terrifies me.
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SMALL SONG The reeds give way to the windand give the wind away
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The spectator, we might put it, contracts by infection the characteristic disease of the actor, the attenuation of selfhood that results from impersonation.
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...in general, the traditionalists are backward-looking, conservative; pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
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I feel my knees changing - like, why do I have this pain when I'm running on the treadmill? What's going on with my lower back when I wake up in the morning? I just feel changes. And I'm definitely fearful in a very vain manner about my body ageing.
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Slumps don't bother me.
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I have known lots of millionaires who were not happy men; they had not got all they wanted and therefore had failed to find success in life. A Singalese proverb says: "He who is happy is rich, but it does not follow that he who is rich is happy." The really rich man is the man who has fewest wants.
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There isn't an amount of money you could offer me to do reality TV. I would rather get my job back on the building site. Or I could own a construction business. Maybe I could retire to my house in Long Island and take up painting, like Captain Beefheart. A crazy recluse: I like that idea.
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The goal of the human experience is to transform ourselves from being who long to attain power in the physical world to beings who are empowered from within.
