Oriah Quotes

#1. The ugly American is not always the arrogant American overseas. He can just as easily be the ignorant American at home.

Martha Peterson

#2. What comes, is called.

Ki Longfellow

#3. The world we live in is a co-creation, a manifestation of individual consciousness woven into a collective dream. How we are with each other as individuals, as groups, as nations and tribes, is what shapes that dream.

Oriah Dreamer

#4. 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

#5. The word 'religion' takes on a sinister cast when one examines its root, religare, meaning 'to bind,' which in turn means 'to hold, to make prisoner, to restrain.

Annie Laurie Gaylor

#6. What if becoming who and what we truly are happens not through striving and trying but by recognizing and receiving the people and places and practices that offer us the warmth of encouragement we need to unfold?

Oriah Dreamer

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. There is nowhere to go. What you are looking for is right here. Open the fist clenched in wanting and see what you already hold in your hand

Oriah Dreamer

#10. 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

#11. God has chosen, through his son Jesus Christ, this time, this place for all Christians - Protestants, Catholics and Orthodox - to save our country and save our courts.

William H. Pryor Jr.

#12. 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

#13. Staying mad is easy. Forgiving someone takes guts.

Jillian Dodd

#14. 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

#15. On a sub, you know, there's no place for things to drain to. The survivors claimed that the blood was knee-deep all through the submarine.

Neal Stephenson

#16. 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

#17. A society is not 'free' merely because the freedoms the people are doing away with are those they voted at the last election to do without.

William F. Buckley Jr.

#18. Being President is a little bit like riding a tiger. You have to keep riding, or else you will be swallowed up by it!

Harry S. Truman

#19. 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

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

Oriah Mountain Dreamer

#21. I want to know if you can live with failure yours and mine and still stand at the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon,"Yes." ...

Oriah Dreamer

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. I can only put myself in the process and try to learn through the process. Sometimes it will go well and sometimes it won't.

Joseph Fiennes

#26. We have been sold a lifestyle, when what our soul desired was life.

Oriah Dreamer

#27. I will not feed him to a tree, as is done in the Unseelie Court with unruly children," Mark promised.

Cassandra Clare

#28. It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dreams, for the adventure of being alive.

Oriah Dreamer

#29. She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.

John Dryden

#30. Our children shouldn't have to wait for adulthood to become wild readers. For many, it will be too late.

Donalyn Miller

#31. Style isn't just about what you wear, it's about how you live.

Lilly Pulitzer

#32. Baby, the tumbleweeds can wait.

Samantha Chase

#33. Not doing is not about immobility or giving up in despair. It is first and foremost about being able to be with, to accept fully, what is in this moment.

Oriah Dreamer

#34. It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know whether you can get up after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done to feed the children.

Oriah Dreamer

#35. What if the question is not why I am so infrequently the person I really want to be, but why do I so infrequently want to be the person I really am?

Oriah Dreamer

#36. 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

#37. We wanted a feminist revolution. I wanted it like a lover. I wanted it like justice.

Dorothy Allison

#38. Loudly declaring our soul's desire can get the blood running and our passions blazing.

Oriah Dreamer

#39. The courage to go deeper is found by letting your desire grow larger than your fear.

Oriah Dreamer