Top 60 Marie Jeanne Quotes
#2. The neighbor's flock has taken advantage of the chaos, and I think that's pretty smart.
Jeanne Marie Laskas
#4. If knowing answers to life's questions is absolutely necessary to you, then forget the journey. You will never make it. For this is a journey of unknowables
of unanswered questions, enigmas, incomprehensibles, and most of all, things unfair.
Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon
#6. If while reading, you feel yourself recollected, lay aside the book and remain in stillness; at all times read but little, and cease to read when you're thus internally attracted.
Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon
#7. I was suppose to write a book about being a mom, to organize my thoughts into chapters and figure out a structure to hang them on, to make a lasting point, but somehow I decided to go ahead and become a mother instead.
Jeanne Marie Laskas
#8. Yes, yes," said the Beast, "my heart is good, but still I am a monster." Among mankind," says Beauty, "there are many that deserve that name more than you, and I prefer you, just as you are, to those, who, under a human form, hide a treacherous, corrupt, and ungrateful heart.
Jeanne-Marie Leprince De Beaumont
#9. I must," said the Beast, "for, alas! I know too well my own misfortune, but then I love you with the tenderest affection. However, I ought to think myself happy, that you will stay here; promise me never to leave me.
Jeanne-Marie Leprince De Beaumont
#10. You can make your life so much larger simply be acknowledging everyone else's.
Jeanne Marie Laskas
#11. I think the call of the inward life starts here. Solitude helps you differentiate, define the borders of the self. Solitude helps you figure our where everybody else stops and you begins.
Jeanne Marie Laskas
#12. Maybe the biggest problem with loneliness is that we walk around thinking we're the only ones suffering from it.
Jeanne Marie Laskas
#16. Secrets of the incomprehensible wisdom of God, unknown to any besides Himself! Man, sprung up only of a few days, wants to penetrate, and to set bounds to it. Who is it that hath known the mind of the Lord, or who hath been His counselor?
Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon
#17. My soul was not only brought into harmony with itself and with God, but with God's providence. In the exercise of faith and love, I endured and performed whatever came in God's providence, in submission, in thankfulness, and silence.
Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon
#19. The soul should not be surprised at feeling itself unable to offer up to God such petitions as it had formally made with freedom and facility; for now the Spirit maketh intercession for it according to the will of God ("with sighs too deep for words" - Romans 8:26-27).
Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon
#20. Fortune does not change men; it only unmasks them. [..by how they choose to react to it.]
Marie Jeanne Riccoboni
#22. Pride, anger, gluttony, and idleness are sometimes conquered, but the conversion of a malicious and envious mind is a kind of miracle.
Jeanne-Marie Leprince De Beaumont
#24. All peace-loving women shut up when they sense they have stepped onto Guy Turf. Guy Turf is a murky realm of ego and pride and chivalry and testosterone and heroism.
Jeanne Marie Laskas
#26. If I'm going to be working out here in a place that at least feels like the middle of nowhere, I'm going to need access to the outside world. It's important to have access. Solitude is one thing, but you could turn into the Unabomber if you don't have some connection to people.
Jeanne Marie Laskas
#27. We never know how strongly we cling to objects until they are taken away, and he who thinks htat he is attached to nothing, is frequently grandly mistaken, being bound to a thousand things, unknown to himself.
Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon
#28. It is a great truth, wonderful as it is undeniable, that all our happiness temporal, spiritual, and eternal consists in one thing; namely, in resigning ourselves to God, and in leaving ourselves with Him, to do with us and in us just as He pleases.
Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon
#29. Just because politicians, scientists, and business execs are raging about it, and newspaper headlines are screaming it, doesn't mean the message sticks - or that people care. It takes more than that to change a culture. In
Jeanne Marie Laskas
#35. Dreams are matters of the heart, things that pull you along as if they have hooked you someplace deep inside.
Jeanne Marie Laskas
#39. You plant a garden one flower at a time ... You write a book one word at a time, clean a closet one shelf at a time, run a marathon one step at a time. If you feel defeated by some large task, get your spade and dig the first hole.
Jeanne Marie Laskas
#40. The more wants we have, the further we are from God, and the nearer we approach him, the better can we dispense with everything that is not Himself.
Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon
#42. Isolation is aloneness that feels forced upon you, like a punishment. Solitude is aloneness you choose and embrace. I think great things can come out of solitude, out of going to a place where all is quiet except the beating of your heart.
Jeanne Marie Laskas
#43. Since you are so kind as to think of me, be so kind as to bring me a rose, for as none grow hereabouts, they are a kind of rarity.
Jeanne-Marie Leprince De Beaumont
#44. But the writing life, it turned out, was difficult. It wasn't like you could sit down and flip a switch and crank on the ventilation system. Sometimes it didn't work, and sometimes you couldn't even find the switch.
Jeanne Marie Laskas
#45. God causes us to promise in time of peace what He exacts from us in time of war; He enables us to make our abandonments in joy, but He requires the fulfilment of them in the midst of much bitterness.
Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon
#46. He destroys that he might build; for when He is about to rear His sacred temple in us, He first totally razes that vain and pompous edifice, which human art and power had erected, and from its horrible ruins a new structure is formed, by His power only.
Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon
#47. The very discovery of these hidden things is in itself a purifying experience! The soul needs to discover what is inside. The self nature needs to see what it really is, and what it is like-right to the very bottom.
Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon
#49. A person truly humbled permits not anything to put him in a rage. As it is pride which dies the last in the soul, so it is passion which is last destroyed in the outward conduct. A soul thoroughly dead to itself, finds nothing of rage left.
Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon
#50. There is many a monster who wears the form of a man; it is better of the two to have the heart of a man and the form of a monster.
Jeanne-Marie Leprince De Beaumont
#54. We should accept indiscriminately all His dispensations, whether obscurity or illumination, fruitfulness or barrenness, weakness or strength, sweetness or bitterness, temptations, distractions, pain, weariness, or doubtings; and none of all these should, for one moment retard our course.
Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon
#55. Our activity should consist in placing ourselves in a state of susceptibility to Divine impressions, and pliability to all the operations of the Eternal Word.
Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon
#56. Prayer is the key of perfection and of sovereign happiness; it is the efficacious means of getting rid of all vices and of acquiring all virtues; for the way to become perfect is to live in the presence of God.
Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon
#58. I wanted to go to a place where I could think, really sink into my own imagination, or ride it, or drift along it, as in a balloon. The kind of place that probably all writers crave. The kind of place where the outside world is still and quiet and you get a chance to listen, to peer, to go inward
Jeanne Marie Laskas
#59. All consolation that does not come from God is but desolation; when the soul has learned to receive no comfort but in God only, it has passed beyond the reach of desolation.
Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon
#60. It's much better to be apart and wish you were together than to be together and wish you were apart.
Jeanne Marie Laskas
