“You either have faith or fear, not both. Things, they think, generate fear. The more things you have, the more you have to fear. Eventually you are living your life for things.”
― Marlo Morgan, quote from Mutant Message Down Under
“Our words, our actions must constantly set the stage for the life we wish to lead.”
― Marlo Morgan, quote from Mutant Message Down Under
“The less you take from the land, the less you owe in return.”
― Marlo Morgan, quote from Mutant Message Down Under
“Everyone has blood and bones; the important one is your intention and your soul.”
― Marlo Morgan, quote from Mutant Message Down Under
“The spider's lesson is never to be greedy. It shows that objects of necessity can be objects of beauty and art as well. The spider teaches us that we can be too easily enraptured with ourselves.”
― Marlo Morgan, quote from Mutant Message Down Under
“There is no morality in war', they said, 'but cannibals never killed more in one day that they could eat. In your wars, thousands are killed in a few minutes. Perhaps it might be worth suggesting to you leaders that both parties in your war agree to five minutes of combat. Then let all the parents come to the battlefield and collect the pieces and parts of their children, take them home and mourn and bury them. After that is over, another five minutes of battle might or might not be agreed upon. It is difficult to make sense out of senselessness.”
― Marlo Morgan, quote from Mutant Message Down Under
“Tanrım bana değiştiremeyeceğim şeyleri kabul etme gücü, değiştirebileceğim şeyleri değiştirme cesareti ve bu ikisi arasındaki farkı anlayabilme sağduyusu ver”
― Marlo Morgan, quote from Mutant Message Down Under
“In Australien ist man der amerikanischen Zeit um siebzehn Stunden voraus. Man fliegt also buchstäblich in den nächsten Tag hinein. Während des Fluges erinnerte ich mich daran, daß wir sicher sein konnten, daß es die Welt am nächsten Tag noch geben und alles in Ordnung sein würde! Auf dem Kontinent, der vor uns lag, war es schon »morgen«.”
― Marlo Morgan, quote from Mutant Message Down Under
“Ako povrediš nekog drugog,povredio si sebe.
Ako pomogneš drugome,pomažeš sebi.
Krv i kost nalaze se u svim ljudima.
Razlikujemo se po srcu i nameri.”
― Marlo Morgan, quote from Mutant Message Down Under
“Tek kad sasječete posljednje drvo, tek kad zatrujete posljednju rijeku, tek kad upecate posljednju ribu, tek tada ćete saznati da se novac ne može jesti."
Proročanstvo Cree Indijanaca”
― Marlo Morgan, quote from Mutant Message Down Under
“I also did something that seems to come naturally to females, although I am sure we are not taught to do it; I placed my underwear in the middle of the stack of clothing.”
― Marlo Morgan, quote from Mutant Message Down Under
“Regal Black Swan told me that in this world of personalities, there is always a duality. I had interpreted it as good versus bad, slavery or freedom, conformity and its opposite. But that is not the case. It is not black or white; it is always shades of gray. And most important, all the gray is moving in a progressive pattern back to the originator. I teased about our age and told him I needed another fifty years just for comprehension.”
― Marlo Morgan, quote from Mutant Message Down Under
“In Australien ist man der amerikanischen Zeit um siebzehn Stunden voraus. Man fliegt also buchsnächstäblich in den nächsten Tag hinein. Während des Fluges erinnerte ich mich daran, daß wir sicher sein konnten, daß es die Welt am nächsten Tag noch geben und alles in Ordnung sein würde! Auf dem Kontinent, der vor uns lag, war es schon >morgen<.”
― Marlo Morgan, quote from Mutant Message Down Under
“Çember kapanmıştı. Olaya bundan fazla çaba, zaman ve tasa harcamaya gerek yoktu.”
― Marlo Morgan, quote from Mutant Message Down Under
“Yenilikler ancak onlar için yer açtığımız zaman yaşantımıza girebilirler.”
― Marlo Morgan, quote from Mutant Message Down Under
“Ellos (Los Auténticos) creen que los objetos generan miedo. Cuantas más cosas tienes más tienes que temer. Al final sólo vives para tener cosas.”
― Marlo Morgan, quote from Mutant Message Down Under
“I now know we each have two lives: the one we learn by and the one we live after that. The”
― Marlo Morgan, quote from Mutant Message Down Under
“Tal vez el futuro del mundo se halle en mejores manos si nos olvidamos de descubrir cosas nuevas y nos concentramos en recuperar nuestro pasado.”
― Marlo Morgan, quote from Mutant Message Down Under
“Durante nuestro viaje se realizaron dos celebraciones para honrar el talento de sendas personas. Todos los miembros de la tribu reciben este reconocimiento mediante una fiesta especial, pero no tiene nada que ver con la edad ni los cumpleaños; con ella se reconoce el carácter único de ese talento y su contribución a la vida. Según sus creencias, el paso del tiempo cumple el propósito de permitir que las personas se vuelvan mejores, que expresen más y mejor su propio ser. Así pues, si eres mejor persona este año que el anterior, y sólo tu lo sabes con seguridad, debes ser tu quien convoque la fiesta. Cuando tú dices que estás preparado, todos lo aceptan.”
― Marlo Morgan, quote from Mutant Message Down Under
“Literalmente nos habían despojado de todo cuanto llevábamos excepto de los trapos con que nos cubríamos el cuerpo. Los pequeños regalos recibidos, que me hubiera llevado a los Estados Unidos y legado a mis nietos, habían sido destruidos. Tenía ante mi una elección: reaccionar con lamentaciones o con resignación. ¿Era un intercambio justo, mis únicas posesiones materiales a cambio de una lección inmediata sobre el desapego? Me dijeron que probablemente me hubieran permitido conservar los recuerdos barridos por el agua pero que, por la energía de la Divina Unidad, al parecer seguía otorgándoles demasiada importancia. ¿Había aprendido por fin a valorar la experiencia y no el objeto?”
― Marlo Morgan, quote from Mutant Message Down Under
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Born date September 29, 1937
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“The Sultan tapped his tented fingers, staring into the distance. Suddenly, he lunged toward me, took hold of my wrist, and pulled me roughly down to sit on the cushion beside him. “This . . . mermaid,” he said through clenched teeth, leaning in so close to me that I could smell the mint on his breath. “The one who sang to the king at night.” His voice was fierce, but quiet. I couldn’t tell if anyone but me could hear. “How . . .” he began. “How did she think of the king . . . in her heart?”
I glanced quickly up at his face and saw there a look that took me by surprise. An oddly soft, vulnerable, hurting look. The look of a man who might cry out in his sleep at night, like a child. But then the stony mask slid back.
“Did she despise him,” the Sultan asked, “for making her sing for her life each night? Did she only pretend affection to save her own skin? Did she . . . loathe him for what he had done before, to his other wives? For his . . . sins?”
“No, my lord,” I said softly. “She loved him.”
“Do you swear it?” He gripped my wrist harder, until it hurt.
“Yes, my lord. She told me—” I stopped, corrected myself. “She told the mermaid with the broken fin. She said the king—the merman king, my lord—she said that he had a deep hurting inside him. She said that she wanted to soothe him. And when the mermaid with the broken fin . . . questioned how the queen could love him—because of the things you just said, my lord—the queen said, ‘I’m not ashamed of loving him. There’s nothing wrong with loving someone. It’s hating—that’s what’s wrong.”
― Susan Fletcher, quote from Shadow Spinner
“sunt lacrimae rerum, “There are tears in things.”
― Daniel Mendelsohn, quote from The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
“John?” came a small voice. There, standing in the doorway from the kitchen, was Chris with his favorite snuggly toy, the one with the blue-and-gray plaid flannel leg. “What’cha doing, John?” Preacher’s face melted into a soft smile and he went to the boy. He lifted him into his arms. “Huntin’,” he said. “Just a little huntin’.” “Where’s Mom?” Preacher kissed his pink cheek. “She’ll be back pretty soon. She’s off on errands. And you’re going to stay with Mel and Brie while we’re huntin’.” *”
― Robyn Carr, quote from Shelter Mountain
“But since Sloth I've been so monogamous I make the demonstration banana that AIDS educators use to show how to put on a condom, look slutty.”
― Lauren Beukes, quote from Zoo City
“Why is it that voices break hearts?”
― Robin Oliveira, quote from My Name is Mary Sutter
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