Maria Quotes

Only the weak invite their demons to live with them. Isn't that right?

If you give your work life, your work will give you life. Vies-versa

Starting at the bottom is not about humiliation. It's about humility—a realistic assessment of where you are in the learning curve.

All these many-coloured feelings fell... like light on a black surface, producing no change, meeting no return.

The best way to lose a woman was to show her a kind of life that one could offer her for only a few days.

Marriage is not essential to the contentment, the dignity, or the happiness of woman.

The way to get people to love you is to show them that you love them.

I mean that repeated offences, even when they secure forgiveness, drive out love. And from that I came to say that one may compel obedience but never love.

Just feel forgiveness in your heart. The universe will hear you and that will be enough.

One lost easiest what one held in one’s arms— never what one left.

That is fundamentally the only courage which is demanded of us: to be brave in the face of the strangest, most singular and most inexplicable things that can befall us

perhaps we would bear our sadnesses with greater trust than we have in our joys

It seems to him there area thousand bars, and behind the bars, no world.

It's okay", you say, perhaps more to yourself than to him. Like if you keep telling yourself that it's okay, then it will be.

I was a ghost on a ghost ship in a ghost land

I know everyone has dreams of flying, but this isn’t a dream of flying. It’s a dream of floating, and the ocean is not water but wind. I call it a dream, but it feels realer than my life.

You can deceive yourself with truth too. That's an even more dangerous dream.

more money than the crooks at Enron and less taste than a drunk after a bottle of tequila

In those few words you've summed up my life - my reason for existence. It's you. Any pain I've suffered, the mistakes I've made, the path laid out for me have all led here - to you.

I'm yours, for eternity!

Eternity, " I repeated, the words burning into my brain, so much so it felt we'd made some form of sacred and unbreakable bond.

the invisible storehouse in nothingness, called memory.

Those who say traveling is expensive, are just ill-informed.

Let your judgements have their own quiet, undisturbed development, which must, like all progress, come from deep within, and cannot in any way be pressed or hurried.

How did men make themselves loved, I wondered. I had passed all my life with men who were loved but I seemed never to have learnt the lesson.

There had never been any more between us thanchance had brought. But perhaps that makes a greater indebtednessand binds closer than much else

I trust the Universe Implicitly, therefore my experience is happening FOR me and not TO me. I trust the Universe. I trust the process.

By no longer relying on approval from others for (false) reassurance or acceptance, you access a Divine channel of freedom.

A man has to have something he can put faith in.

To find meaning in our lives we need consistent exposure to kids, elders and animals... cuz kids and animals aren't looking for it, and elders are the closest to finding it.

Truth wears a crown of thorns

Some day, we will know the value of suffering, but then we will no longer be able to suffer.

Mom, you know what? I just realized you have a knack for making people disappear. [Lella's son catches on!]

Lella York, the self-proclaimed queen of passive-aggressive behavior. [Lella's perceptive view of herself]

Have patience with everything unresolved in you heart and try to love the questions themselves. It is possible to live and not know.

Your body is an integral part of your intuition.

Perhaps everything terrible is, in its deepest being, something that needs our love.

Oh, here we go, firing questions right and left. I sort of missed that part. [Mina's most endearing trait?]

The man was more temperamental than she was. Not an easy feat. (Mina's view of Diego.)

Dear girl with the red scarf, Love was never meant to be conquered. You have to surrender to it.Trust me, after all, I am Mr. Universe.

Awakening means you’ve come home to yourself, that consciousness shifted back to its original nature.

The ego cleverly hides by projecting and by avoiding to look beyond what it merely believes.

Serious spiritual practice is more than serene walks in the woods, lit candles and incense. You have to be committed. You have to be willing to enter into your own darkness and transcend it.

The awakening process is not about 'finding who you are' but more about finding out about the ego, about who you are not.

Even this is paradoxical because even though the ego does all the spiritual practice in the beginning, it’s the Truth that has orchestrated it all.

Get to know who you are not, because when you know your ego the Truth of who you are will also become clear.

I love the dark hours of my being.My mind deepens into them.There I can find, as in old letters, the days of my life, already lived, and held like a legend, and understood.

Old soul." I laughed. "You're Thirty.""It's not the years, it's the experience, " he paused.

The benefit of appearing so young is I'm constantly underestimated

When people are warm, they cannot stand picking terms.