Marfa Petrovna Quotes

#1. Gently to hear, kindly to judge." - SHAKESPEARE. - Author: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

#2. If you want women to love you, then don't be cross in front of them and don't go all pompous ... -Anna Petrovna in Ivanov - Author: Anton Chekhov

#3. Anna Petrovna: Do you know what, Kolya? Try and sing, laugh, get angry, as you once did ... You stay in, we'll laugh and drink fruit liqueur and we'll drive away your depression in a flash. I'll sing if you like. Or else let's go and sit in the dark in your study as we used to, and you'll tell me about your depression ... You have such suffering eyes. I'll look into them and cry, and we'll both feel better. - Author: Anton Chekhov

#4. Anna Petrovna (to Shabelsky): You can't make a simple joke without an injection of venom. You are a poisonous man.
Joking apart, Count, you're very poisonous. It's hideously boring to live with you. You're always grumpy, complaining, you find everyone bad, good for nothing. Tell me frankly, Count, did you ever speak well of anyone? - Author: Anton Chekhov

#5. There is no higher religion than the truth. - Author: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

#6. He" - she stumbled, finished - "He has been a joy to me." And, drily, "Also a great source of frustration. - Author: Katherine Arden

#7. It is an occult law moreover, that no man can rise superior to his individual failings without lifting, be it ever so little, the whole body of which he is an integral part. In the same way no one can sin, nor suffer the effects of sin, alone. In reality, there is no such thing as 'separateness' and the nearest approach to that selfish state which the laws of life permit is in the intent or motive. - Author: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

#8. Do not be afraid of your difficulties.Do not wish you could be in other circumstances than you are. For when you have made the best of an adversity, it becomes the stepping stone to a splendid opportunity. - Author: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

#9. The Universe is worked and guided from within outwards. - Author: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

#10. Man is a little world--a microcosm inside the great universe. Like a fetus, he is suspended, by all his three spirits, in the matrix of the macrocosmos; and while his terrestrial body is in constant sympathy with its parent earth, his astral soul lives in unison with the sidereal anima mundi. He is in it, as it is in him, for the world-pervading element fills all space, and is space itself, only shoreless and infinite. As to his third spirit, the divine, what is it but an infinitesimal ray, one of the countless radiations proceeding directly from the Highest Cause--the Spiritual Light of the World? This is the trinity of organic and inorganic nature--the spiritual and the physical, which are three in one, and of which Proclus says that 'The first monad is the Eternal God; the second, eternity; the third, the paradigm, or pattern of the universe;' the three constituting the Intelligible Triad. - Author: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

#11. 2 cups unbleached flour 1 cup rolled oats 1 Tbsp baking powder ½ tsp sea salt 1 cup sliced almonds ½ cup shredded coconut ½ cup chocolate chips 2 cups maple syrup 6 oz firm silken tofu (aseptic package) 1 ripe banana ½ cup saffower or sunflower oil ½ cup vegetable shortening 1 Tbsp vanilla - Author: Tanya Petrovna

#12. Flowing down upon his shoulders," and as "having - Author: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

#13. Tonight I see no spheres, but project myself
and gaze back, an important trick
because the goal is to be on both sides of the poem,
shuttling between the you and I. - Author: Ben Lerner

#14. Whatever plane our consciousness may be acting in, both we and the things belonging to that plane are, for the time being, our only realities. As we rise in the scale of development we perceive that during the stages through which we have passed we mistook shadows for realities, and the upward progress of the Ego is a series of progressive awakenings, each advance bringing with it the idea that now, at last, we have reached "reality"; but only when we shall have reached the absolute Consciousness, and blended our own with it, shall we be free from the delusions produced by Maya [illusion]. - Author: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

#15. That's right,' said Morin smoothly. 'We had better just let Marfa Timofeyevna finish keeping us on the straight and narrow.' Somehow his tone as he said this managed to suggest both that censorship was silly, and that it was silly to mind it. Galich conceded Morin a small internal round of (Applause), his headache whispering in his temples. He was highly accomplished himself at finding pleasure-giving, urbane descriptions of what couldn't be helped, but Morin, moreover, had hit the precise note of the moment, liberally-minded yet unchallenging, ironic yet inoffensive. The - Author: Francis Spufford

#16. My mother photographed Donald Judd in Marfa, Texas, right before he passed away. He was actually the first artist whose work I collected. I just loved the photographs that my mom had done of Donald Judd and the installations in Marfa. - Author: Owen Wilson

#17. When there were no churches, no creeds or sects, but when every man was a priest unto himself - Author: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

#18. There are strange friendships," Dostoevsky writes, with reference to Stepan Trofimovich and Varvara Petrovna in Demons. "Two friends are almost ready to eat each other, they live like that all their lives, and yet they cannot part. Parting is even impossible: the friend who waxes capricious and breaks it off will be the first to fall sick and die." A marvelous passage, communicating so economically the diabolical undercurrent of certain friendships, their weird fatalism. - Author: Elif Batuman

#19. Anna Petrovna: I am beginning to think, doctor, that fate has cheated me. The majority of people, who maybe are no better than I am, are happy and pay nothing for that happiness. I have paid for everything, absolutely everything! And how dearly! Why have I paid such terrible interest? - Author: Anton Chekhov

#20. My dear Natalya Petrovna, there's funny and funny. - Author: Ivan Turgenev

#21. Virtue and wisdom are sublime things, but if they create pride and a consciousness of separateness from the rest of humanity, they are only the snakes of self reappearing in a finer form. - Author: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

#22. Inaction in a deed of mercy becomes an action in a deadly sin. - Author: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

#23. A Hindu is a born mystic, and the luxuriant nature of his country has made him a zealous pantheist - Author: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

#24. Theosophy is who Theosophy does, not thinks, not studies, not feels but does. - Author: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

#25. The end of man is an action and not a thought, though it were the noblest - Author: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky