Top 38 Pat Schneider Quotes
#1. I have had positive experiences with cameras. When I have been asked to join experiments using cameras in the courtroom, I have participated; I have volunteered.
Sonia Sotomayor
#2. It occurred to me that when I begin to write, I open myself and wait. And when I turn toward an inner spiritual awareness, I open myself and wait.
Pat Schneider
#3. So many people don't know who's on the State Seal and they don't know, not just in California but the United States of America, things they look at every day and they say, 'Wow! I didn't know that.'
Maria Shriver
#4. If I am an artist, I have a vocation. As one drawn to a lover or called to a religious mission, I go to my work - my writing - because it is essential to my happiness.
Pat Schneider
#5. Angels, she said, were God's way of saying howdy.
David Sedaris
#6. I am like you, curious and small. Like you, I pause alertly and open my senses to try to read the air, the clouds, the sun's slant, the little movements of the animals, all in the hope I will learn the secret of whether I am loved.5
Pat Schneider
#8. Something in me that was broken, cracked - becomes whole. The cracks, if I write them with utter honesty, are where "the light gets in." The present meets the past, and healing begins.
Pat Schneider
#9. I go fishing in my mind. I put out bait, the bait of my own longing, my desire, and my hunger for connection, for a tug of something alive at the end of a line. Something that I may have to struggle with to pull in, but that will be wild and important to me, whether I keep it or let it go.
Pat Schneider
#11. I learned without her saying a word that there are truly many ways to pray, and lighting a candle is one of them.
Pat Schneider
#12. Feel all you can, let your heart speak and guide you. Don't be afraid of the love deep inside you.
Roger Hodgson
#14. Are a hundred ways to kneel and kiss the ground
Pat Schneider
#15. The panther that has stalked you
since you were a child
is old now. No longer wild,
and tired of guarding the treasure
you yourself left behind -
blind and deaf, she will give it all to you
if you just let her go.
Pat Schneider
#16. To grow in craft is to increase the bredth of what I can do, but art is the depth, the passion, the desire, the courage to be myself and myself alone.
Pat Schneider
#17. There is, I suggest, a strong positive correlation between a) the height of the rung occupied on the ladder of power, b) the strength of a sense of personal virtue, and c) the firmness of the conviction that those lower down could and certainly should act more responsibly.
David Smail
#18. Both writing and praying are acts of deep vulnerability.
Pat Schneider
#19. Jesus said, But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret.
Pat Schneider
#20. I noted that people are happy here in India. When I went back home, people had everything in the materialistic sense and were surrounded with abundance, but they were not happy.
Goldie Hawn
#21. To pray is to open oneself completely, intimately, into the Presence that is beyond our ability to name.
Pat Schneider
#22. Writing and prayer are both a form of love, and love takes courage.
Pat Schneider
#23. Darkness and light are inextricably bound together.
Pat Schneider
#24. But if you worry about other people as you write a first draft, you will not be able to free your unconscious mind to give up its treasures. It will be bound by the great dogs of your fear,
Pat Schneider
#25. What a pity. How the stars
and seas and rivers
in their fragile lace of fog
go on without us
morning after morning,
year after year.
And we disappear.
Pat Schneider
#26. Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him.
Ernest Jones
#27. Being the gateway to a large city, St. Louis, I had felt from the very beginning that somehow this building should symbolize this sense of being a gateway.
Minoru Yamasaki
#29. Maybe the bottom of my own night is a darkness I cannot descend into without "the light that is within me" becoming dark.
Pat Schneider
#30. Putting words onto paper - when it is done as an honest act of search or connection, rather than as an act of manipulation, performance, self-aggrandizement or self-protection - is a holy act.
Pat Schneider
#31. Even those truths that are painful will ultimately increase my wisdom, undergird my strength, make possible my art.
Pat Schneider
#33. Surprise is a major factor in distinguishing an answer to prayer from a projection of my own mental processes. When I can't believe I made up the answer myself, I have to look around to see where it came from.
Pat Schneider
#34. Instead of watching the bird as it flies above our heads, we chase his shadow along the ground; and, finding we cannot grasp it, we conclude it to be nothing.
Augustus William Hare
#35. The more we open ourselves to love, the larger our capacity for love becomes.
Pat Schneider
#36. Writing as an art form belongs to all people, regardless of economic class or educational level ... A writer is someone who writes.
Pat Schneider
#37. When we neglect the artist in ourselves, there is a kind of mourning that goes on under the surface of our busy lives.
Pat Schneider
#38. He kissed me tenderly as my heart thumped out of control. My fingers slipped into his thick, black hair and held tightly. He paused, not wanting to pull away. I didn't let him. I was going to say goodbye properly. I held tightly, pressing my lips to his, soft at first then hard with desire.
Leigh Goff
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