Top 100 Neale Quotes
#1. The deeply satisfying aspect of the rediscovery of Zora Neale Hurston is that black women generated it primarily to establish a maternal literary ancestry.
Zora Neale Hurston
#2. Zora Neale Hurston said fear is the greatest emotion and I said, 'No my dear sister.' Fear will make us move to save our own skins. Love also makes us save ourselves, but it will make us move to save others as well.
Sonia Sanchez
#3. Zora Neale Hurston's "I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.
Claudia Rankine
#4. I am just getting into Zora Neale Hurston, who is possibly a much better writer than the critics and rivals who tried to erase her from history, resulting in a life in which she worked as a maid and died in a welfare nursing home. She's clever. She does something modern to the sentence.
Rachel Kushner
#5. It seems to me that organized creeds are collections of words around a wish. I feel no need for such. I know that nothing is destructible; things merely change forms. When the consciousness we know as life ceases, I know that I shall still be part and parcel of the world.
-Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston
#6. There in the fresh young darkness close together. Pheoby eager to feel and do through Janie, but hating to show her zest for fear it might be thought mere curiosity. Janie full of that oldest human longing - self-revelation. - ZORA NEALE HURSTON, THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD
Janet Mock
#7. I've been to sorrow's kitchen and licked all of the pots.
Zora Neale Hurston
Sherri Rosen
#8. Author Neale Donald Walsch says, So long as you're still worried about what others think of you, you are owned by them. Only when you require no approval from outside yourself can you own yourself.
Oprah Winfrey
#9. The world's natural calamities and disasters-its tornados and hurricanes, volcanoes and floods-its physical turmoil-are not created by us specifically.
What is created by us is the degree to which these events touch our life
Neale Donald Walsch
#11. Then "wrong" is right, and "right" is wrong! Yet I'll tell you this, to help you out of your dilemma: believe nothing I say. Simply live it. Experience it. Then live whatever other paradigm you want to construct. Afterward, look to your experience to find your truth.
Neale Donald Walsch
#12. Life is a continual flow of events, streaming in from the universal stream of consciousness in such a way that it exactly matches our own stream of consciousness.
Neale Donald Walsch
#14. Life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. What you believe about Life will be your experience of Life.
Neale Donald Walsch
#16. Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible things you eliminate from your life, but by the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.
Neale Donald Walsch
#17. I may have a general broad-based idea of what I want to write about when I sit down to write a book, but I don't have any idea of what it's going to say. I would call my experience of creativity 'inspired by God' to produce certain pieces of information that might be useful to others.
Neale Donald Walsch
#18. You can only succeed. You cannot fail. Failure is impossible; it is an illusion. Nothing is a failure. Nothing. Everything moves the human story, and hence the process of evolution, forward. Everything advances you on your journey.
Neale Donald Walsch
#19. Words may help you understand something, but experience allows you to know. Never ever trade your own experience for someone else's words about anything that is really important ... like God, for instance, or Love, or what is true about another.
Neale Donald Walsch
#20. When Janie looked out of her door she saw the drifting mists gathered in the west
that cloud field of the sky
to arm themselves with thunders and march forth against the world. Louder and higher and lower and wider the sound and motion spread, mounting, sinking, darking.
Zora Neale Hurston
#22. Life is bendable to our will more than we know. In fact, that's the deal. If we don't know that life bends to our will, it will not. So the trick is to know that life is on our side
and but awaits our command.
Neale Donald Walsch
#23. Long before the year was up, Janie noticed that her husband had stopped talkin to he rin rhymes.
Zora Neale Hurston
#24. You can choose to live your lives as demonstrations of your highest and grandest beliefs, rather than as denials of them.
Neale Donald Walsch
#25. It seemed to me that the human beings I met reacted pretty much the same to the same stimuli. Different idioms,yes. Circumstances and conditions having power to influence, yes. Inherent difference, no.
Zora Neale Hurston
#26. The truth is that there is no journey. You are right now what you are attempting to be. You are right now where you are attempting to go.
Neale Donald Walsch
#29. Because our choices are largely based on survival. But if life is eternal, life is not a question.
Neale Donald Walsch
#30. I belong to no race nor time. I am the eternal feminine with its string of beads.
Zora Neale Hurston
#32. Your happy destiny is unavoidable. You cannot be "saved." There is no hell except not knowing this.
Neale Donald Walsch
#33. The mind and the soul must work together if you are to experience true bliss. Try not to spend too much time exclusively in your mind. It is a magnificent tool, but it has a limited perspective.
Neale Donald Walsch
#34. God comes through all people, in the way that people experience themselves. The beautiful part about God is that God is trans-cultural, and tends to reveal himself through the experiential filters of all people to whom he is revealed.
Neale Donald Walsch
#35. Nanny's words made Janie's kiss across the gatepost seem like a manure pile after a rain
Zora Neale Hurston
#36. Yet never resist anything. If you think that by your resistance you will eliminate it, think again. You only plant it more firmly in place. Have I not told you all thought is creative?
Neale Donald Walsch
#37. What is needed today is for all of us to work to change the world's mind about God.
Neale Donald Walsch
#38. Yesterday is gone and you can't change it.
There are no guarantees for tomorrow, so save it.
The best stuff is now, so live today and don't dare waste it.
Michael Neale
#39. Nothing has to happen immediately, this minute, or right now. It's okay to pause for just a moment. Just take a breath. Then go quietly inside. Ask life itself to lead you to your best outcome. There's nothing you have to do, really, except get out of your own way.
Neale Donald Walsch
#40. Please God, please suh, don't let him love nobody else but me. Maybe Ah'm is uh fool, Lawd, lak dey say, but Lawd, Ah been so lonesome, and Ah been waitin', Jesus. Ah done waited uh long time.
Zora Neale Hurston
#41. Put simply, Hurston wrote well when she was comfortable, wrote poorly when she was not.
Zora Neale Hurston
#42. And we're seeing a higher level of consciousness and many more opportunities for people to challenge their present ways of thinking and move into a grander and larger experience of who they really are.
Neale Donald Walsch
#44. Drop the thought that you cannot affect the future. Tell yourself that the future is not coming TO you, it is coming THROUGH you. The change that is coming to you is that change that you place in your future with the thoughts, words, and actions of today
Neale Donald Walsch
#46. Once upon uh time, Ah never 'spected nothin', Tea Cake, but bein' dead from the standin' still and tryin' tuh laugh. But you come 'long and made somethin' outa me. So Ah'm thankful fuh anything we come through together." "Thanky, Ma'am.
Zora Neale Hurston
#47. If you choose to believe in a God who somehow needs something - and has such hurt feelings if He doesn't get it that He punishes those from whom He expected to receive it - then you choose to believe in a God much smaller than I. You truly are Children of a Lesser God.
Neale Donald Walsch
#48. Life proceeds out of your intention. Your true intention is revealed by your actions, and your actions are determined by your true intention. As with everything in life (and life itself), it is a circle.
Neale Donald Walsch
#49. You are therefore in the process of experiencing yourself by creating yourself anew in every single moment. As am I. Through you.
Neale Donald Walsch
#50. In order to experience the Ultimate Reality you have to be out of your mind.
Neale Donald Walsch
#51. Today the earth is populated with billions of people desperately hoping to "get somewhere," but having no idea of where they're going.
Neale Donald Walsch
#52. Those who are afraid of what comes after death because it is unknown may tend to be those who cannot face the unknown in life.
Robert E. Neale
#53. Part of it was a feminist streak and the other part of it was the ultimate in antifeminism: a deeply rooted need in me to be accepted by my dad and by other men. If I could do the same things as them, I would be accepted into their world.
Melanie Neale
#54. You are not a human being. You are not your body, you are not your mind, and you are not your soul. These are things that You have. The You that has these things - indeed, that has given your Self these things - is far bigger than any of them, and even all of them put together.
Neale Donald Walsch
#55. Forever is longer than you know. Eternal is longer than Forever. God is more than you imagine. God is the energy you call imagination. God is creation. God is first thought. And God is last experience. And God is everything in between.
Neale Donald Walsch
#56. Happiness is a decision, not an experience. You can decide to be happy without what you thought you needed in order to be happy, and you will be. Your experience is the result of your decision, not the cause of it.
Neale Donald Walsch
#57. In this chapter, what do you find out about Janie's parents and early childhood? CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.1
Zora Neale Hurston
#59. The soul conceives, the mind creates, the body experiences. The circle is complete.
Neale Donald Walsch
#60. Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
Zora Neale Hurston
#61. It connected itself with other vaguely felt matters that had struck her outside observation and buried themselves in her flesh.
Zora Neale Hurston
#62. The act of resisting something is the act of granting it life ... the more you resist, the more you make it real - whatever it is you are resisting.
Neale Donald Walsch
#63. Uh woman by herself is uh pitiful thing, she was told over and again.
Zora Neale Hurston
#65. Love lets go. Need holds on. This is the way you can tell the difference between need and love. Let go of expectation, let go of requirements and rules and regulations that you would impose on your loved ones.
Neale Donald Walsch
#66. Life will only make sense; and can only produce long-term happiness, peace and joy when embraced from the perspective of the soul.
Neale Donald Walsch
#67. Remember first that everything you think, say, and do is a reflection of what you've decided about yourself; a statement of Who You Are; an act of creation in your deciding who you want to be.
Neale Donald Walsch
#68. It is demonstrable and observable that our morals are based on our earliest spiritual beliefs. Matters of the Mind in no small measure have reflected matters of the Soul.
Neale Donald Walsch
#69. You can't lose the game. You can't go wrong. It's not part of the plan. There is no way not to get where you are going. There's no way to miss your destination. If God is your target, you're in luck, because God is so big, you can't miss.
Neale Donald Walsch
#70. Life will not, it will never, make sense to your mind. The secret is to see life from the soul's perspective; to add to the mind's experience the soul's wisdom, awareness, and total knowing.
Neale Donald Walsch
#71. The morning road air was like a new dress. That made her feel the apron tied around her waist. She untied it and flung it on a low bush beside the road and walked on,
Zora Neale Hurston
#73. The biggest mistake we make in creating successful relationships is that we seek to experience who we are through others rather than allowing others to experience who they are through us.
Neale Donald Walsch
#75. What? You're thinking for yourself? You're deciding on your own? You're applying your own yardsticks, your own judgments, your own values? Who do you think you are, anyway? And, indeed, that is precisely the question you are answering.
Neale Donald Walsch
#76. If you don't like the way you are headed, change direction. Go inside. Search your place of inner wisdom. See what this calls on you to do. Then do it.
Neale Donald Walsch
#77. Try to not be disappointed in anything. Know that life is showing up perfectly in every moment. Today's disappointment could be tomorrow's springboard to all that you've ever wanted. In fact, it probably is.
Neale Donald Walsch
#78. I hold that any religion that satisfies the individual urge is valid for that person.
Zora Neale Hurston
#79. Nothing can happen, nothing can occur in your life which is not a precisely perfect opportunity for you to heal something, create something, or experience something that you wish to heal, create, or experience in order to be who you really are.
Neale Donald Walsch
#82. It is not for you to judge the journey of another's soul. It is for you to decide who YOU are, not who another has been or has failed to be.
Neale Donald Walsch
#83. Here Nanny had taken the biggest thing God ever made, the horizon - for no matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you - and pinched it in to such a little bit of a thing that she could tie it about her granddaughter's neck tight enough to choke her.
Zora Neale Hurston
#84. All that appears in your life is a blessing, presenting you with a greater opportunity to define who you are, and to know yourself as that.
Neale Donald Walsch
#85. Time makes everything old so the kissing, young darkness became a monstropolous old thing while Janie talked.
Zora Neale Hurston
#86. When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.
Zora Neale Hurston
#87. Most of you, therefore, spend the bulk of your adult life searching for the "right" way to worship, to obey, and to serve God. The irony of all this is that I do not want your worship, I do not need your obedience, and it is not necessary for you to serve Me.
Neale Donald Walsch
#88. There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.
Zora Neale Hurston
#89. And if we're all one, we need to stop our competition with each other. Most of the decisions we make are about survival and winning.
Neale Donald Walsch
#90. Light came to me when I realized that I did not have to consider any racial group as a whole. God made them duck by duck and that was the only way I could see them.
Zora Neale Hurston
#92. Built into you is an internal guidance system that shows you the way home. All you need to do is heed the voice.
Neale Donald Walsch
#93. The North has no interest in the particular Negro, but talks of justice for the whole. The South has not interest, and pretends none, in the mass of Negroes but is very much concerned about the individual.
Zora Neale Hurston
#94. She was a wind on the ocean. She moved men, but the helm determined the port.
Zora Neale Hurston
#95. A five-word sentence that could change the world tomorrow is What would love do now?
Neale Donald Walsch
#96. So the question is not: Why start off on such a path? You have already started off. You did so with the first beat of your heart. The question is: Do I wish to walk this path consciously, or unconsciously? With awareness or lack of awareness? As the cause of my experience, or at the effect of it?
Neale Donald Walsch
#97. The horror of the Hitler Experience was not that he perpetrated it on the human race, but that the human race allowed him to. The astonishment is not only that a Hitler came along, but also that so many others went along.
Neale Donald Walsch
#98. A great state is a well-blended mash of something of all the people and all of none of the people. The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.
Zora Neale Hurston
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