Inspiring Quotes - Page 69

I look at some of the great novelists, and I think the reason they are great is that they're telling the truth. The fact is they're using made-up names, made-up people, made-up places, and made-up times, but they're telling the truth about the human being- what we are capable of, what makes us lose, laugh, weep, fall down, and gnash our teeth and wring our hands and kill each other and love each other.

If you choose to see everything as a miracle, then where you are right now is perfect. There is nowhere to run to; there is nothing else to do except be in this moment and allow what is to be. From that place of radical acceptance, major change can happen. The first step in any transformational experience is acceptance and surrender to the present moment, the way that it is. From that place we have the awareness, humility and power to change what is.

I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.' But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who'll play the piano after dinner, and I know you're not really invited for yourself. You're just an ornament.

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

Love and work are the only two real things in our lives. They belong together, otherwise it is off. Work is in itself a form of love.

I didn't know my mother had it. I think a lot of women don't know their mothers had it; that's the sad thing about depression. You know, you don't function anymore. You shut down. You feel like you are in a void.

I always tried to be correct, not politically correct.

I accept my body. I accept how I am and make the best of what I am given.

You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal.

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.

If you're into what you're playing, that's the most important thing.

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

Men's best successes come after their disappointments.

The only way to speak the truth is to speak lovingly.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness.

The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.

Don't give up! I believe in you all. A person's a person, no matter how small! And you very small persons will not have to die If you make yourselves heard! So come on, now, and TRY!

When wealth is centralized, the people are dispersed. When wealth is distributed, the people are brought together.

Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.