1,449 Quotes About Memoir

When we invoke stillness within our consciousness, we have the power to recover the child we forgot that we once were.

We become the product of our recurrent thoughts. Writing is one method of explicating upon our thoughts, condensing multiple scenes, times, and ideas, and editing our fragmented beliefs.

It starts with a single breath and the present moment, but where it takes you is into the vast radiance of your true nature, into a magical, spacious life.

The whole world is like an opened candy jar, and we're plunging in for the best treats

Music is not my life. My life is music.

Meditation and mindfulness are tools for working with the mind, but where they have led me is to a blossoming of the heart...

My husband and I have always been good at creative visualization. Before we quit drugs and got married he’d place tabs of acid on his eyes to see things that weren't there. I'd lay blank sheets of photographic paper on the cornea of developing solution to conjure images. We'd always coaxed dreams from paper, and believed them.

Sometimes painting is just prayerful movement. And that is enough.

From all the mishaps and missteps, my life has been presented with one persistent question, "How can I turn this burden into a blessing?" Answering this question has become the guiding light in the inevitable and fruitful darkness.