Mary Zimmerman Quotes

#1. The soul wanders in the dark, until it finds love. And so, wherever our love goes, there we find our soul.

Mary Zimmerman

#2. The root of suffering is resisting the certainty that no matter what the circumstances, uncertainty is all we truly have.

Pema Chodron

#3. Mrs. McCauley, my dearest Reb, I do love you! This Yank has surrendered most willingly to the South.

Heather Graham

#4. No, the key to wealth was opportunity. And if opportunity didn't come knocking than Mrs. Lowry says you must build your own door.

Stacey Lee

#5. Repentance is shockingly beautiful when we see it not as "I sinned again, I need to repent," but as "I sinned against my God again, but He is calling me back so He can lavish me with His love and forgiveness.

James MacDonald

#6. Knock, And He'll open the door
Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun
Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens
Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.

Rumi

#7. A: The soul wanders in the dark, until it finds love. And so, wherever our love goes, there we find our soul.
Q: It always happens?
A: If we're lucky. And if we let ourselves be blind.
Q: Instead of watching out?
A: Instead of always watching out.

Mary Zimmerman

#8. I'm drawn to very large texts that are mammothly popular in different parts of the world but are almost unknown here [the USA]. They're safe bets; if they've been around for 2,000 years, there's a reason. It's often a title or just a phrase within the text that will compel me to adapt it.

Mary Zimmerman

#9. Let me die the moment my love dies.
Let me not outlive my own capacity to love.
Let me die still loving, and so, never die.

Mary Zimmerman

#10. In the future, if nuclear weapons are unleashed there will be no front and no rear.

Nikita Khrushchev

#11. You chose us. Now we have to choose you.

Veronica Roth

#12. No one seems to realize how much we are driven by FEAR, the essential component of human personality. Everything else - from ambition to love to despair - derives in some way from this single powerful emotion.

Trenton Lee Stewart