Marianne Williamson Quotes
Every relationship, every situation is part of a divinely created and highly specific curriculum for your soul growth.
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If I look back I feel frightened, not happy, because my life is a bit of a mystery to me.
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Every good movie I watch, the hero becomes my favourite. I start blushing every time a hero romances a heroine.
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In my household, a Trapper-Keeper was too expensive - we had plain old three-ring notebooks - and I always wanted a Trapper-Keeper.
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The running joke about the Premio Cervantes, the most coveted literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world, which was established by Spain's Ministry of Culture in 1976, is that Cervantes himself wouldn't have received it. This is because he was, in his heart, the most anti-Spanish of Spanish writers.
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Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.
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Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.
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There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.
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I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
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I do not want to be a long-term CEO.
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Being the world's greatest athlete just does not get it done on the golf course.
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You're able to do things in novels: introduce subplots, other characters, thematic layers and so on, in a way that you simply can't in a movie. A movie really has to choose its battles.
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My quality of life here in Quebec City is extraordinary.
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It's fascinating to be in a place where no one has ever heard of me.
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We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet.
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I don't consider myself a competition to anyone. There is ample space for everyone here. When there are directors who create characters for me, why should I feel bothered or insecure? When it comes to updating myself, I work very hard to relate to the emotions of characters I play.
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The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.
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The world has also learned that economic growth, by itself, cannot close the gap between rich and poor.
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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of Heaven.
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In the United States, large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation's funeral at our expense.
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Some people have food, but no appetite; others have an appetite, but no food. I have both. The Lord be praised.
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Every relationship, every situation is part of a divinely created and highly specific curriculum for your soul growth.
