Maria Quotes

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.

We make our way through Everything like thread passing through fabric, giving shape to images that we ourselves do not know.

the knowledge of impermanence that haunts our days is their very fragrance.

They, who passed away long ago, still exist in us, as predisposition, as burden upon our fate, as murmuring blood, and as gesture that rises up from the depths of time.

Let your beauty manifest itself without talking and calculation.​ You are silent. It says for you: I am. And comes in meaning thousandfold​, comes at long last over everyone.

Love and death are the great gifts that are given to us; mostly they are passed on unopened.

It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.

I have, I think, afforded every opportunity that could be reasonably expected, to judge of my credibility.

I often remembered also that I had been told, that we shall have as many devils biting us, if we go to hell, as we have unconfessed sins on our consciences.

We were constantly hearing it repeated, that we must never again look upon ourselves as our own; but must remember, that we were solemnly and irrevocably devoted to God.

I saw, in looking over Cooper, elements of a comet of 1825 which resemble what I get out for this, from my own observations, but I cannot rely upon my own.

Trees do not force their sap, nor does the flower push its bloom.

I made observations for three hours last night, and am almost ill today from fatigue; still I have worked all day, trying to reduce the places, and mean to work hard again tonight.

I have worn myself thin trying to find out about this comet, and I know very little now in the matter.

Order is one of the needs of life which, when it is satisfied, produces a real happiness

For women there are, undoubtedly, great difficulties in the path, but so much the more to overcome. First, no woman should say, "I am but a woman!" But a woman! What more can you ask to be?

Nothing comes out more clearly in astronomical observations than the immense activity of the universe.

If patriarchy had a specific beginning in history, it can also have an end

I know that producing will ultimately mean more longevity in the business, so when I'm tired of everything else and want to be behind the cameras, I know that I can produce.

When we are forced to do multiple things at once, not only do we perform worse on all of them but our memory decreases and our general well-being suffers a palpable hit.

The child seeks for independence by means of work; an independence of body and mind.

May you gain more and more confidence in what is difficult and in your solitude among other people.

Donald Trump, I'm not afraid of you.

The situation of the Salvadorian people is terrible; all their rights are violated. There is a direct violation against the human person, a violation of rights that is endemic in society.

It is only alone, truly alone that one bursts apart, springs forth.

Be-and yet know the great void where all things begin, the infinite source of your own most intense vibration, so that, this once, you may give it your perfect assent.

will there ever be a drama more beautiful than that of eating?

Adults have not understood children or adolescents and they are, as a consequence, in continual conflict with them.

All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.

What we fight with is so small, and when we win, it makes us small. What we want is to be defeated, decisively, by successively greater things

Motherhood: 24/7 on the frontlines of humanity. Are you man enough to try it?

It is not work that kills, but "worry."

a poet will even face death when he sees his people oppressed.

If there were one city I should pick to live in, it would be New York. It is a city where I walk down the street and feel anything is possible.

He who is served is limited in his independence.

A humankind abandoned in its earlier formative stage becomes its own greatest threat to survival.

The sooner you learn it's on you to make life interesting, the better off you'll be.

Love and the hope of it are not things one can learn; they are a part of life's heritage.

I know many of you thought that I would be retiring today, but if I was ever going to announce my retirement it would not be in a downtown Los Angeles hotel with this fairly ugly carpet.

In my youth, I spent my time investigating insects.

It's strange for my friends when they see me on TV and in magazines, because the person that they see doing interviews and pictures on the red carpet is not the person that they know.

I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language.

Everything in the world of things and animals is still filled with happening, which you can take part in.

The past shouldn't be forgotten. It should be used as a guide for future situations and not used as a reason to avoid making difficult decisions. There was always a choice.

But there is much beauty here, because there is much beauty everywhere.

...my sanity threatened to take a holiday without me.

A person who is careless about money is careless about everything, and untrustworthy in everything.

Trenches, hospitals, the common grave--there are no other possibilities.

The more perfect the approximation to truth, the more perfect is art.

Wanting to change, to improve, a person's situation means offering him, for difficulties in which he is practiced and experienced, other difficulties that will find him perhaps even more bewildered.