Mary Morrissey Quotes

Sometimes we look around and realize we need new friends. That's the sign that they are just around the bend :) ~ Liz Hester

This IS exactly how things look just before your dreams ignite! ~ Liz Hester

The world is your mirror...love what you see and you love YOU! ~ Liz Hester

When your heart feels strangely warm, you've found your love ~ Liz Hester

Your true potential will speak as loud as your willingness to listen will allow it. If you simply breathe for the next 365 days, your life is going to be different, but is that the "different" you want to create in your life? You have to make your possibilities welcome in your life. ~ Mary Morrissey

I can do what I dream of doing, one breath and one step at a time. ~ Liz Hester

Sometimes all it takes is one Deep Breath and everything falls into place. ~ Liz Hester

Think of yourself as being loved, because you are. ~ Mary Morrissey

What you focus on, you create. So focus your attention consciously, and do not allow your attention to stray to results that you aren't interested in manifesting. Because you can, and will, create more of what you are focusing on. ~ Mary Morrissey

Inspiration, without action, is merely entertainment. ACT on your inspiration today! ~ Mary Morrissey

Inspiration without action is really entertainment. So while something can be very inspiring it is not transformative until you actually do something with it. ~ Mary Morrissey

Water will not flow from a faucet that is not connected to its source. ~ Mary Morrissey

To learn to live from the heart it doesn't just change our feeling about life, it actually changes our life. ~ Mary Morrissey

Inspiration is nice, but not until we take action do we move into transformation. ~ Mary Morrissey

If you're facing what looks like a large problem, receive it as a compliment from the Universe. What a great soul you must be! ~ Mary Morrissey

Painting pictures in our mind of what we want serves as the foundation
for greater living and greater relationships. ~ Mary Morrissey

Nature herself does not distinguish between what seed it receives. It grows whatever seed is planted; this is the way life works. Be mindful of the seeds you plant today, as they will become the crop you harvest. ~ Mary Morrissey

Go within and release yesterday's sorrow so you may embrace today's joy. ~ Liz Hester

key in the other direction and pushed the door open. It parted a few ~ Mary Higgins Clark

It is good to have many strengths, Natiya...Do not sacrifice one kind of strength for another ~ Mary E. Pearson

Redd up the ship! ~ Mary Ann Shaffer

From my infancy I was imbued with high hopes and a lofty ambition. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

So help me God, if you don't tell me where you are right this second I will shoot you myself as soon as I find your scrawny ass. ~ Mary Calmes

I would need ... daisy love, you know, pretty love, sweet love that nonetheless was ubiquitous in roadside ditches in the summertime, and instead I would get orchid love. Love that needed misting and replanting and pruning and fertilizing and died anyway. ~ Mary Ann Rivers

[On George H.W. Bush vs. Michael Dukakis:] Americans now know they can vote for a man who can't express his thoughts or a man who can't express his feelings. ~ Mary McGrory

Is it not a duty to the survivors that we should refrain from augmenting their unhappiness by an appearance of immoderate grief? It is also a duty owed to yourself; for excessive sorrow prevents improvement or enjoyment, or even the discharge of daily usefulness, without which no man is fit for society. ~ Mary Shelley

I believe," he said gently, "we all have a perfect right to make ourselves unhappy if that is what we freely choose. But I am not sure we have the right to allow our own unhappiness to cause someone else's. The trouble with life sometimes is that we are all in it together. ~ Mary Balogh

To me, death is dark, pain, grief. ~ Mary Roach

Henry wasn't curious in the least. She just wanted Gideon to stay close. ~ Mary Jane Hathaway

Civil Rights opened the windows. When you open the windows, it does not mean that everybody will get through. We must create our own opportunities. ~ Mary Frances Berry

Maddi glared at him. "Thats why your not built like Alden. French fries." Race laughed. "Id love to look like Alden. Hot female speakers would be falling all over themselves to be paired up with me, just like they did whith Alden when Rose...Lenzi was gone. You should've seen it, Lenzi. It was halarious." My insides gave a jealous churn. ~ Mary Lindsey

Once you can fake sincerity, you can fake anything. ~ Mary Jo Putney

... to wander far from the familiar "home" of his adolescent ways of belonging, doing, and being. He must, as poet Mary Oliver puts it, "stride deeper and deeper into the world." His culture will greatly influence the manner in which he wanders, as will his gender, physical constitution, psychological temperament, age, and bio-region. In one culture, his wandering might take him geographically far from his hometown or village. In another culture, geographic movement will have little importance for the true depth of his wandering. What is critical is not whether he engages in this practice or that, or undergoes this ritual or another, but that his wandering changes his relationship to the world, that he leaves the home of his adolescent identity, and that his border crossings usher him into the mysteries of nature and psyché. ~ Bill Plotkin

I used to think I was ugly. I thought I looked like a camel. A person who doesn't love themselves, they will see anything that pops up on their face. I've seen squirrels, I've seen a bird, and I've seen all kinds of animals on my face. But that is the result of self-hate. I've learned to say: 'You know what? I am a beautiful black woman'. ~ Mary J. Blige

He looked as if he were anxiously balancing a large handful of tact, without quite knowing where to put it down. ~ Mary Renault

A scene," Mary told us, "is a moment when there is some form of tension. A scene leads to the next scene. And a causal connection between scenes is what leads you to the story. A scene should be very clearly developed, and when the action is finished, the scene is over. An anecdote is, 'Oh, I missed the train. You'll never believe what happened ... ' An anecdote leads to nothing. ~ Alice Steinbach

As Anthony said to Cleopatra as he opened a crate of ale: Oh, I say, some girls are bigger than others, Some girls' mothers are bigger than other girls' mothers. ~ Steven Morrissey

I am a woman. My life is a long, strong, twisted rope, made up of a number of human relationships, nothing more. ~ Mary Borden

My brother said that at Eton, students were told caning builds character. I suppose girls are caned less because we aren't thought to have much character."
"Which is the sort of thing males say when they don't know any women. ~ Mary Jo Putney

It was cold outside." Alden said as he pulled the chair out for me. "I thought Race was going to cry like a baby." Race laughed.
"You're the one who was whining about the wind," he teased.
"Being male, Im suprised either one of you had the good sence to come in out of the cold," Maddi said, pouring a tiny paper cup of ketchup on her hamburger. ~ Mary Lindsey

I have great respect for Oklahoma's tribal members, and I celebrate their traditions and culture. ~ Mary Fallin

No touching Baby Jesus."
"But we're his parents!" proclaimed Mary Beth, who was being generous to include poor Joseph under this appellation.
"Mary Beth," Barb Wiggin said, "if you touch the Baby Jesus, I'm putting you in a cow costume. ~ John Irving

When knowledge comes in at the door, fear and superstition fly out of the window. ~ Mary Roberts Rinehart

Study your prey, learn her habits, accustom her to your presence by seeming harmless and kind. And then, when she is tame and off-guard, you pounce! ~ Mary Hoffman

Return telephone calls promptly but be judicious about the time spent on the phone. ~ Mary Kay Ash

Every day I feel more like some defeated matador limping out of the arena after I've been gored, or like some general coming back from a long battle. ~ Mary Karr

If one sat up as long as an hour past bedtime, except on Christmas and birthdays, one would be ill. Laurie, who had had this explained to him many times and accepted it as incontrovertible fact, inferred from it that after three hours one would probably die. ~ Mary Renault

Orthodox Judaism is a thicket of detailed injunctions, Biblical commandments elaborated during centuries of prohibited proselytizing, functioning to limit interaction with outsiders. At the opposite extreme, Islam, still the most rapidly expanding of faiths, demands little immediate knowledge from those who would convert. The convert is permitted to enter and then to learn by participation, although there are plenty of detailed regulations and abstruse theological ideas to be pursued later, and the regulations do effectively separate believers from nonbelievers. ~ Mary Catherine Bateson

Increase of knowledge only discovered to me more clearly what a wretched outcast I was. I cherished hope, it is true, but it vanished when I beheld my person reflected in water or my shadow in the moonshine, even as that frail image and that inconstant shade. ~ Mary Shelley

Mikhal - ... most of all, I want to be the man that I am only when I am with you ~ Mary Jo Putney

The person of winning personality attracts his pupils who will do anything for his sake and are fond and eager in all their ways, docile to the point where personality is submerged, and they live on the smiles, perish on the averted looks, of the adored teacher. Parents look on with a smile and think that all is well; but Bob or Mary is losing that growing time which should make a self-dependent, self-ordered person, and is day by day becoming a parasite who can go only as he is carried, the easy prey of fanatic or demagogue. ~ Charlotte M. Mason

I guess you can't estimate the speed of a teenage boy when he thinks he has a shot at sex. He never had a shot. But if he was that fast removing his pants, can you imagine how quick the sex would have been? ~ Mary J. Williams

We ask Mary that, as the first disciple, she teach us to remain watching, that she accompany us in patience, strengthen us in hope; we ask that she lead us towards the meeting with her Risen Son; that she free us from fear, so that we cans hear the announcement of the angel ... to announce it to others who need it so much. ~ Pope Francis

Death was a beginning and not an end; it was the morning of the spirit. Tired bodies lay down to sleep and their souls wakened to the morning, rested; the first fruits of them that slept. ~ Mary Roberts Rinehart

To ask me is in vain;
For who goes up your winding stair
Can ne'er come down again. ~ Mary Howitt

What may not be expected in a country of eternal light ~ Mary Shelley

If I had another life
I would want to spend it all on some
unstinting happiness.
I would be a fox, or a tree
full of waving branches.
I wouldn't mind being a rose
in a field full of roses.
Fear has not yet occurred to them, nor ambition.
Reason they have not yet thought of.
Neither do they ask how long they must be roses, and then what.
Or any other foolish question. ~ Mary Oliver

As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given. ~ Mary Lou Retton