Marianne Williamson Quotes
You can know everything that the books have to say, but ultimately it boils down to whether we do the inner work of devotion and surrender, whether we can put aside our own agendas and allow the spirit to move through us.
Quotes to Explore
-
I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.
-
When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
-
I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.
-
There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
-
When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
-
I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
-
I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.
-
I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.
-
I like different statement jewelry, especially around the ears.
-
I really don't believe in magic.
-
I don't look at myself as suffering.
-
I hate the domestic life.
-
I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.
-
Since there are only so many ways to kill a person, a good portion of homicides look pretty much alike.
-
I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.
-
God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
-
The books I love most are the ones that combine some sort of gripping story with really beautiful or stylish writing. Some of my favorites are 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy, 'The Virgin Suicides' by Jeffrey Eugenides, 'The Interpreter of Maladies' by Jhumpa Lahiri, and 'Blindness' by Jose Saramago.
-
I wanted to get a cropped hairdo, but Sreenu Vaitla loves my look in 'Chiruta,' so he suggested that I keep the long hair.
-
I love everything to be organized and clean... all the time.
-
It's not that I wanted to be an actor; it's that I didn't want to be a dancer! I was trained in traditional Chinese dance, and after working so hard it seemed unfair to just disappear into a group.
-
Does a man of sense run after every silly tale of hobgoblins or fairies, and canvass particularly the evidence? I never knew anyone, that examined and deliberated about nonsense who did not believe it before the end of his enquiries.
-
It's good for actors to confront those things we have to act: panic, pain and death.
Antony Sher -
The sheer diversity of literature in the Bible is one of the secrets of its continuing popularity through the centuries. There is something for all moods and many different cultures. Its message is not buried in religious jargon only accessible to either believers or scholars, but reflects the issues that people struggle with in daily life.
-
You can know everything that the books have to say, but ultimately it boils down to whether we do the inner work of devotion and surrender, whether we can put aside our own agendas and allow the spirit to move through us.
