Spiritual Memoir Quotes

#1. Frank Berliners spiritual memoir is beautifully crafted and written. It is a tale about love, and the great longing that springs from there - to learn, to grow, to be real, and to forge a genuine connection with oneself and others, with life, and with death. I highly recommend it.

John Welwood

#2. I want my paintings to have a light of their own, they must glow from inside ...

Douglas Portway

#3. To have solely one thought, but it to be capable to destroy the universe.

Mircea Eliade

#4. Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

Jean Genet

#5. What if your Vision Board came true?

Juliette Power

#6. Life is truly a matter of choices, reactions, and actions...each and every choice is governed by our reactions which in turn affect our actions and consequently the future turn of events

Kapil Kumar Bhaskar

#7. I just have so few sunrises left, and I want to be happy.

Stewart Rahr

#8. I like how writing can take you off for a jaunt in your head and then set you back down in the chair where you've been all along.

Georgann Low

#9. You really can give a 110% effort towards something that you are truly passionate about.

Robert Cheeke

#10. She is my mare and my best friend, and I keep waiting for something bad to happen to her, because I love her too much.

Maggie Stiefvater

#11. It's fun wandering around other people's minds.

Jenny Holzer

#12. A vow is a heavenly created obligation in motion that only ends when fully completed.

Lizelle DuPlessis

#13. When first discovering a night sky, the eyes may pick out a few tiny stars. Waiting and watching reveals thousands, until it seems there is yet more light than empty blackness. So my life has been, and so it continues.

Sumangali Morhall

#14. I'd always assumed that by 40 I'd have at least a modicum of stability - a steady income, an established career, a bountiful fullness, like a pillow into which I could sink as I entered the second half of my life.

Deborah Copaken Kogan

#15. The very old and the very young have something in common that makes it right that they should be left alone together. Dawn and sunset see stars shining in a blue sky; but morning and midday and afternoon do not, poor things.

Elizabeth Goudge

#16. ...American book jackets reflect the spirit of country - little homogeneity, lots of diversity.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#17. I mean, it's not important what kind of pants you wear; it's how you wear them.

Ronnie Lott

#18. Kaethe Schwehn's poignant memoir explores longing, both spiritual and physical, community and faith, in prose that is calm, lovely, and filled with clear-eyed honesty and grace. Tailings is simply an exquisite book.

Dinty W. Moore

#19. Music is the art of all the invisible things that are real. Art, emotion, spiritual essence, consciousness - these things are hard to prove. Music helps you to focus on your sound. We understand that for very young kids.

Wynton Marsalis

#20. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. We don't choose the experience but we do choose how we react to the experience we have. Choose to be positive, choose to be helpful, choose to be happy.

Paula Coffer

#21. I didn't know there were mermaids in the lake.

Catherine Knutsson

#22. we can proceed without knowing or expectation

Mariah McKenzie

#23. Of all the old maid's blessing, the greatest is carte blanche. Spinsterhood is powerful; once a woman is called "that crazy old maid" she can get away with anything.

Florence King

#24. [My father] was handsome and tanned and smelled wonderful, like a mix of the ocean and fresh-cut grass, except when he smoked his pipe, which also smelled wonderful, as how I thought wisdom must smell, when it curls about your head.

Carolyn Weber

#25. As one old gentleman put it, Son, I don't care if you're stark nekkid and wear a bone in your nose. If you kin fiddle, you're all right with me. It's the music we make that counts.

Robert Fulghum