Shirley MacLaine Quotes - Page 2

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

Until mankind realizes that there is, in truth, no good, and there is, in truth, no evil-there will be no peace.

Listen to sounds beyond silence.

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.

I want women to be liberated and still be able to have a nice ass and shake it.

Sex is hardly ever just about sex.

I love the idea that I'm the oldest one in the room because I can get away with anything!

When you walk 10 hours, 11 hours a day by yourself, you are doing a walking meditation.

...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.

Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late. Someday change will be accepted as life itself.

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

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

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.

You have to surrender to the energy above and below.

The loss of magic is the denial of unlimited possibility.

Crystals are amplifying minerals. You have a crystal in a radio - it amplifies the sound waves. You have a crystal in a television set - it amplifies the light waves. When you hold crystals, they amplify thought waves.

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

New York was the only city I knew in the world where you could be desperately lonely at nine in the morning, crossing the street for a bagel at Gristede's, and find that seven hours later you were drinking Irish coffee at P.J. Clarke's with all the friends you had inherited along the way.

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

I could be whatever I wanted to be if I trusted that music, that song, that vibration of God that was inside of me.

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

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

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

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

I think when I was in my early twenties and middle twenties I didn't even know I wasn't living up to my potential. A couple of friends told me I wasn't and told me to get my act together, and it made a huge impact on me.