Marianne Quotes

No matter what mistakes we might have made yesterday, today is the day we can retrieve our innocence.

Life as we knew it is passing away, and something new is emerging to take its place, The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for a Radically New Life.

It isn't courageous to go forth when you don't know the dangers. But it's very courageous to go forth when you do.

The spiritual commitment is to make every situation an object of devotional connection.

Sometimes a miracle is a change in material conditions, such as physical healing. At other times, it is a psychological or emotional change.

The Light in you is the unalterable truth of who you are. You can deny it and obscure it, but you cannot uncreate it.

The world as we know it is falling apart at the seams, because it's an inadequate container for the truth of who we are.

The past doesn't determine your future unless you carry it with you into the present. Forgiving yourself and others, you free the universe to begin again at any moment.

As we give, so shall we receive. Service does not mean self-sacrifice. It means giving the needs of another person the same priority as our own.

Fear is a psychic tyrant that has no intention of letting its slave go free. It will say whatever it needs to say to confuse your thinking... It will always seek to preserve itself.

In a choice between love and fear, choose love.

If you have a longing in your heart to hear a deeper truth, there's a mysterious way in which that truth will find you.

Much like a GPS, love re-calibrates itself if you've made a wrong turn.

You have to make a space in your heart, in your mind and in your life itself for authentic human connection.

If I'm honest with myself, I think it's probably true I have learned more in my life through pain than through joy. But hopefully that's changing.

The Queen is coming to reclaim her girls.

They fought the enemy, we fight fat living and self-pity. Shine, o shine, unfalsifying sun, on this sick scene.

...to make art is to realize another's sadness within, realize the hidden sadness in other people's lives, to feel sad with and for a stranger.

I never trusted anybody at all. I don't know why it was so hard, I just didn't.

God gives us His strength by giving us His vision of things. Our seeing people as innocent is the only way to achieve God’s peace.

Love will be our medicine.

When our patterns are threatened by new facts, reason is seldom the victor: 'I know what I think, so don't go confusing me with new opinions.

I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it

The voice of God, if you must know, is Aretha Franklin's.

There are so many myths out there about Marianne Faithfull, I had to, um, detach. But I can turn it on because Marianne Faithfull is really an attitude, you know.

I live a very nice life. I have a wonderful time. But it's not lived drawing on a full level. I'm relaxed, cool, and enjoying it.

If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

Nature is infinitely creative. It is always producing the possibility of new beginnings.

I'm fascinated by the narrative of geology, and I'm a veritable pack rat of a collector on the road. I keep a rock hammer in my car.

A pencil in my hand, its secret life / is charcoal, the wood already burnt, / a sacrifice.

Isabel sends her brother a look that could boil him in oil if she had that particular paranormal talent. A thought hits me: maybe she has. It will be fun to find out.

Grief and passion make a volatile mix.

The price for Jarrod's freedom is to be my imprisonment.

I push throughthe wind to the north-facing window and stand before it. 'I will bring her back!' I shout into the darkness. I do this because I know Rhauk will be listening.

Blood trickles from my throat, on to Kate's white nightgown. She screams at the sight. 'Jarrod, you're bleeding!' 'I'm all right, don't struggle I won't let it get to you.

Not to know what happened before you were born is always to remain a child. For what is a man’s life if it is not linked with the life of future generations by memories of the past?

Darkness at Blacklands is scary.

I burned too bright. I saw too much.

Rules? Ixion is supposed to be free of rules, yet it seems as strict as Grave in its own way and more...more dangerous.

I have always been attracted to the bleaker aspects of life. I love drama.

If you analyze the bad times you find that it's because you wanted to have a bad time.

Never apologize, never explain - didn't we always say that? Well, I haven't and I don't.

I never saw myself as beautiful. I can look back and see it now, but then? Never.

I don't talk about my private life.

I've done everything I want to do and gone everywhere I want to go.

There is a land that I can go to When I have time to rest. All the people I love are there And those who love me best.

Sometimes you just have to get a shock to grow up and wake up, and I've had lots of shocks because it's as though I don't learn the lessons, so something new comes and hits me.

Of course I have regrets; I'm not stupid.

I'm having a great life, and I want to go on having one.

All I have to do is what's right for me.