Mary Manin Morrissey Famous Quotes



"Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life. And when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful -- a thought that is love."


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"In the state of nature...all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law."
Charles de Montesquieu

"Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream."
Roger Rosenblatt

"I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person."
Jane Austen

"Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny."
Quentin Crisp

It is long accepted by the missionaries that morality is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing people wore.
Alex Carey

Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn.
Anouk Aimee

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
Mark Twain

"Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives."
Oscar Wilde

Build a dream and the dream will build you.
Dr Robert Schuller

God is a verb.
Richard Buckminster Fuller