Valiente's Quotes

#1. Love and ruin are explained with letters of the alphabet.
The power of the word can describe the glory of the universe. It only requires an open mind and heart.

J.R. Ortiz

#2. There's nothin left,
I used to cry,
My conversation has run dry,
Thats whats going on,
Nothing's fine I'm torn.

Scott Cutler

#3. Analogies are lies grown-ups tell.

Brent Weeks

#4. Let my worship be within the heart that rejoices,
for behold, all acts of love and pleasure are my rituals.
Therefore, let there be beauty and strength,
power and compassion, honor and humility,
mirth and reverence within you.

Doreen Valiente

#5. This is a fun action story and light reading.

Steve O'Driscoll

#6. Sarah Palin uses me as a laugh line in her stump speeches. If you're willing to turn me into a joke, you should also be willing to talk to me.

Rachel Maddow

#7. If that which you seek, you find not within yourself, you will never find without.

Doreen Valiente

#8. 'All the gods are one god and all the goddesses are one goddess, and there is one initiator.' The one initiator is one's own high self, with which the personality becomes more and more integrated as the path of spiritual evolution is followed.

Doreen Valiente

#9. Is this useful?" It's a simple, elegant corrective to my "price of security" motto. It's okay to worry, plot, and plan, he's saying - but only until it's not useful anymore.

Dan Harris

#10. Let My worship be in the heart that rejoices, for behold, all acts of love and pleasure are My rituals.

Doreen Valiente

#11. This planet is our home. Our life and hers are interdependent.

Doreen Valiente

#12. I try to be a good person every day. If you didn't like me, there would be something wrong with you, because I really go out and work as hard as I can to help people. I put myself last - always. I'm a giver all the way.

Antonio Sabato Jr.

#13. And you who seek to know me,
know that the seeking and yearning will avail you not,
unless you know the Mystery:
For if that which you seek,
you find not within yourself, you will never find it without.

Doreen Valiente

#14. There's only a handful of directors who really understand what I call the alchemical balance between a man and a woman, in a woman's body, which most people consider the strong woman character.

Michelle Rodriguez

#15. The birth and rebirth of all nature, / The passing of winter and spring, / We share with the life universal, / Rejoice in the magical ring.

Doreen Valiente

#16. The generation of atmosphere, the aura of the uncanny, is one of the most important secrets of magic. It contributes to the willing suspension of disbelief, the feeling that, within the circle, or in the presence of the magical shrine, anything may happen.

Doreen Valiente

#17. In Valiente's world," Eden wrote,"Love is never consummated, but remains a figment of the hero's own imagination. In preferring dreams to reality, the hero dooms himself. He would rather risk a physical death than the death of his beloved illusion.

Ava Zavora

#18. Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I'd try to read my lessons, and the children behind me were falling on the floor with laughter.

James Earl Jones

#19. The black stream, catching on a sunken rock, Flung backward on itself in one white wave, And the white water rode the black forever. - ROBERT FROST

Kevin Fedarko

#20. For two are the mystical pillars, that stand at the gate of the shrine, And two are the powers of Nature, the forms and the forces divine.

Doreen Valiente

#21. Go out and do your thing knowing that rejection and failure is an inevitable and integral part of the process to achieving your dreams.

Miya Yamanouchi

#22. And thou who thinkest to seek for me, know thy seeking and yearning shall avail thee not, unless thou know this mystery: that if that which thou seekest thou findest not within thee, thou wilt never find it without thee

Doreen Valiente

#23. Magic, indeed, is all around us, in stones, flowers, stars, the dawn wind and the sunset cloud; all we need is the ability to see and understand.

Doreen Valiente

#24. An it harm none, do what ye will.

Doreen Valiente

#25. whose dark and icy depths were starting to seem as distant as the moon. Just as it had before he faced the Horntail, time was slipping away as

J.K. Rowling

#26. AS C.S. Lewis once said, for Joe life here on earth was only the title and cover page. And now he has begun the greatest story of all, one that no one on earth has ever read in which ever chapter is better than the last.

Karen Kingsbury

#27. For maybe the first time in my life, I had tried to do the safe thing, and it had blown up in my face. Never, ever again.

Rick Bragg