Marianne Quotes

Of the crow-blue mussel shells, one keeps adjusting the ash heaps; opening and shutting itself like an injured fan.

What is there in being able to say that one has dominated the stream in an attitude of self-defense; in proving that one has had the experience of carrying a stick?

Sun and moon and day and night and man and beast each with a splendor which man in all his vileness cannot set aside; each with an excellence!

the small tuft of fronds or katydid legs above each eye, still numbering the units in each group; the shadbones regularly set about the mouth, to droop or rise

We don't like flowers that do not wilt; they must die, and nine she-camel hairs aid memory.

Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral; he could handle any missile.

A symbol from the first, of mastery, experiments such as Hippocrates made and substituted for vague speculation stayed the ravages of plague.

Maine should be pleased that its animal is not a waverer, and rather than fight, lets the primed quill fall. Shallow oppressor, intruder, insister, you have found a resister.

There is no pleasure subtler than the sensation of being a good workman; and in work there is the sense of consanguinity-unconscious as a rule but sometimes conscious.

What I write could only be called poetry because there is no other category to put it.

A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds.

Hindered characters / seldom have mothers / in Irish stories, but they all have grandmothers.

he who gives quickly gives twice / in nothing so much as in a letter.

Writing is an undertaking for the modest.

The self does not realize itself most fully when self-realization is its most constant aim.

Truly as the sun can rot or mend, love can make one bestial or make a beast a man.

Men are monopolists of "stars, garters, buttons and other shining baubles"- unfit to be the guardians of another person's happiness.

Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go.

We really have no definition of mother in our law books. Mother was believed to have been so basic that no definition was deemed necessary.

I like to keep my wheels on the ground.

Thanks to the Tour de France, riding the Champs-Elysees has a great cycling history.

Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts.

I take the world very personally. I take history personally; I want to place myself in the larger context.

I will never turn to God.

There is only ever one answer to the question what did you do with your life, and it's the same--fleeting and unknowable--for every one of us. I lived.

You speak your mind, don't you...? A rare find in a woman.

Every decision you make reflects your evaluation of who you are.

Imagine a temple inside your mind, a haven from the chaos of the world. Visit often.

The universe takes us as seriously as we take it.

Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. When you choose to love, you choose to work miracles.

We are dominated on this planet by a fear-based rather than a love-based thought system.

Surrender doesn't obstruct power; it enhances it.

Always seek less turbulent skies. Hurt. Fly above it. Betrayal. Fly above it. Anger. Fly above it. You are the one who is flying the plane.

Happiness requires that we give up a worldly orientation-not worldly things, but a worldly attachment to things. We have to surrender all outcomes. We have to live here but appreciate the joke.

I have heard it said that living out of our vision is more powerful than living out of our circumstance.

We want spiritual principles to be more than beautiful abstractions; we want them to actually transform our lives.

It is your thoughts and your thoughts alone that determine what's possible for you now.

When you carry yesterday's thinking into today, you program tomorrow to be like yesterday.

Creating the world we want is a much more subtle but more powerful mode of operation than destroying the one we don't want.

I really got into Osho's books. I have always loved his books. They were top notch.

It is not your job to seek for love. It IS your job to seek within yourself all the barriers against its coming.

The time to show up fully for life is right now, whatever the circumstances.

There is a point at which we begin to receive a diminishing return on the accumulation of sacred knowledge unless we use it to at least try to improve the world.

If you think there's something you need in order to be happy, then you believe in lack. Then believing you lack, you will create more lack.

The real transformation of the world comes not from what we are doing but from the consciousness from which we are doing it.

Once you've had enough and you can't do it anymore, you consider the possibility that there might be a better way. That's when your head cracks open and God comes in.

Love brings up everything unlike itself.

There can be no darkness where I provide the light.

Angry people cannot create a peaceful planet

We experience who we really are, and what it is we are meant to do, in any moment when we pour our love into the universe.