Oriah Mountain Quotes

#1. If tomorrow, women woke up and decided they really liked their bodies, just think how many industries would go out of business.

Gail Dines

#2. But one thing was quite clear ... " [Sol Bloom, chief of the Midway] wrote. "[B]eing broke didn't disturb me in the least. I had started with nothing, and if I now found myself with nothing, I was at least even. Actually, I was much better than even: I had had a wonderful time.

Erik Larson

#3. For me personally, I'm constantly trying to really re-negotiate how I'm going to make a living because I can't make a living solely off editorial. And I'm also still trying to tell long feature stories that are harder and harder to get assigned, you know.

Lynsey Addario

#4. Every act I live while I am fully awake can not help but be both prayer and lovemaking.

Oriah Mountain Dreamer

#5. A neurosis is wherever we are allied against our true nature.

James Hollis

#6. When we surrender when we do not fight with life when it calls upon us we are lifted and the strength to do what needs to be done finds us.

Oriah Mountain Dreamer

#7. And I found that I can do it if I choose to - I can stay awake and let the sorrows of the world tear me apart and then allow the joys to put me back together different from before but whole once again.

Oriah Mountain Dreamer

#8. I can make whatever choices I want in my life, and I will live with the consequences of those choices. But if I want to live a life close to my deepest desires, I have to risk knowing who I really am and have always been. Knowing this, then I can choose.

Oriah Mountain Dreamer

#9. As you abide in Christ, you will have strength for today's trials as well as for all tomorrow's challenges.

Elizabeth George

#10. I want to know if you've touched the center of your own sorrow, if you've been opened by life's betrayals, or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain.

Oriah Mountain Dreamer

#11. Where I had felt a victim, I had become a determiner by recognizing I had choices. When considering a purchase, I stopped saying, "I can't afford it," and started saying, "That's not where I want to spend that amount of money.

Oriah Mountain Dreamer

#12. Do not touch me and keep your soul out of your fingertips ... Die into me or don't come to me at all.

Oriah Mountain Dreamer

#13. It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you, from the inside, when all else falls away.

Oriah Mountain Dreamer

#14. Somewhere along the road many of us have picked up the belief that to change we must suffer. Some things are earned with work. But work is not suffering. Work is just work.

Oriah Mountain Dreamer

#15. I could rent Caesar out at birthday parties. Halloween parties. I could take pictures of Caesar eating a piece of birthday cake. Or a picture of a kid riding Caesar on his birthday. We could build a saddle.

Pat Conroy

#16. Growing up, we didn't have any money - we shopped where you picked your shoes out of a bin. When I was little, I said, 'When I grow up, I'm going to have nice shoes.'

Sherri Shepherd

#17. I want to know if you can see beauty even when it's not pretty, every day,and if you can source your own life from its presence.

Oriah Mountain Dreamer

#18. Tell me how you crumble when you hit the wall,the place you cannot go beyond by the strength of your own will. What carries you to the other side of that wall, to the fragile beauty of your own humanness?

Oriah Mountain Dreamer

#19. And after we have shown each other how we have set and kept the clear, healthy boundaries that help us live side by side with each other, let us risk remembering that we never stop silently loving those we once loved out loud.

Oriah Mountain Dreamer

#20. Sometimes I think there are only two instructions we need to follow to develop and deepen our spiritual life: slow down and let go.

Oriah Mountain Dreamer

#21. What I know for sure is that pleasure is energy reciprocated: What you put out comes back. Your base level of pleasure is determined by how you view your whole life.

Oprah Winfrey