Shirley Maclaine Quotes

I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.

I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.

And I think we'll be able to prove scientifically that other talents such as intuitive, psychic, clairvoyant and audiovoyant are very real.

It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.

You know when you eat too many sweets and get diabetes? Paparazzi are the diabetes of materialistic culture.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.

We are not victims of the world we see, we are victims of the way we see the world.

A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.

Crystals amplify the consciousness.

Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. It's where all the fruit is.

All life is a boomerang. We receive what we give.

I think in the end we all know that our best friend is ourselves. We are born alone and we die alone. That's the journey.

To release others from the expectations we have of them is to really love them.

Friendship is not linear. It moves in all directions, teaching us about ourselves and about each other.

The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.

I've made so many movies playing a hooker that they don't pay me in the regular way anymore. They leave it on the dresser.

...One individual is his or her own best teacher, and no other idol or false image should be worshiped or adored because the God we are all seeking lies inside oneself, not outside.

If you're comfortable with yourself-which everyone can get to, to some extent-that's when you start getting into who is your real self.

Never trust a man when he's in love, drunk, or running for office.

You have to surrender to the energy above and below.

Anything is possible if you believe you deserve it.

I think people will become more and more aware that we are all more than we seem.

All you really need in life is some fresh water, a good hat, and a really good pair of shoes.

Maybe the tragedy of the human race was that we had forgotten that we are each divine.

I hoped that the trip would be the best of all journeys: a journey into ourselves.

If they would teach us from the time we're little to meditate and get in touch with all that our souls know, we wouldn't fight so much.

You are the architect of your personal experience.

Dance is an art that imprints on the soul. It is with you every moment, it expresses itself in everything you do.

I have a great life, to tell you the truth.

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

When times are bad, people like to lose themselves in the sheer glamour of another period: beautiful wardrobes, magnificent meals served in elegant settings.

I think it's much more important to know the truth than it is to make money on it.

I think we have to do something about the environment and how we are polluting the planet.

Someday change will be accepted as life itself.

Art is about energy positive and negative. All art has the power to heal because it helps us see who we are, and what we resist.

I have never seen myself as leading for others. What's important is that I know who I am. Not completely. But I'm coming around third base.

I think the hill one has to trudge in order to understand a man's baggage is more of a trek than I'd like to take right now.

Prayer is speaking to God. Meditation is listening to God. Trust tranquility.

New York is the perfect town for getting over a disappointment, a loss, or a broken heart.

For me, the safest place is out on a limb.

People think I'm nuts.

bonding through dependence never works, whereas bonding through freedom always does.

Why do people have to love people anyway?

There's no journey worth taking except the journey through one's self. That's the most important journey you take. I found that out as I went around the world many times: I was learning about me.

The pain of leaving those you grow to love is only the prelude to understanding yourself and others.

God bless that potential that we all have for making anything possible if we think we deserve it. I deserve this.

There are stars who are proficiently paranoid enough to hide what they really think. I can't.

He's a real gentleman. I bet he takes the dishes out of the sink before he pees in it.

Once you get your own family clear in your head, whatever your problems are with it. You're better prepared for being an adult in the world.