Shirley MacLaine QUOTES

1 " Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends. "

2 " You think you have a handle on God, the Universe, and the Great White Light until you go home for Thanksgiving. In an hour, you realize how far you've got to go and who is the real turkey. "

― Shirley MacLaine , Dance While You Can

3 " Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power. "

― Shirley MacLaine

4 " Audrey was the kind of person who when she saw someone else suffering tried to take their pain on herself. She was a healer. She knew how to love. You didn't have to be in constant contact with her to feel you had a friend. We always picked up right where we left off. "

― Shirley MacLaine

5 " We are not victims of the world we see, we are victims of the way we see the world. "

― Shirley MacLaine

6 " The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused. "

― Shirley MacLaine

7 " I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part. "

― Shirley MacLaine

8 " It's useless to hold a person to anything he says wile he's in love, drunk, or running for office. "

― Shirley MacLaine

9 " One of the most erogenous zones of a woman is her intelligence. "

― Shirley MacLaine

10 " Release and resolve fear, and what you want flows freely. "

― Shirley MacLaine , It's All In The Playing

11 " Someday change will be accepted as life itself "

― Shirley MacLaine

12 " I believe we have neglected to see that terrorism is just a convenient excuse for those in power to gently instruct us to go quietly into that good night of being compliant and unrevolutionary citizens who willingly become subjugated to authority. "

― Shirley MacLaine , I'm Over All That: And Other Confessions

13 " our human language is full of indications of how much dogs mean to us.somebody who is not favored to win is an"underdog" a book that's well worn is "dog-eared" and why is a "bitch" the most humiliating thing you can call a woman? "

― Shirley MacLaine

14 " New Age thinking asks that each person take responsibility for everything that happens in life because everything in life is connected. "

― Shirley MacLaine , Going Within: A Guide for Inner Transformation

15 " At last it dawned on me that the differences between us were not really simply because he was Russian and I American. Sure, we were having trouble with cultural differences. But it was our versions of evil that really differed--evil in relation to God and man, not evil in relation to sociology or socialism. Russians and Americans couldn't have been more diametrically opposed in relation to hope and the future. And the Bolshevik Revolution hadn't that much to do with it. But it was just too easy to say the Russian soul was imprinted with the need to suffer. Nor was it true that the American soul was imprinted with an adolescent naïveté causing enthusiasm and optimism to spring eternal. "

― Shirley MacLaine , Dancing in the Light

16 " Pain was nothing but resistance; resistance to the God energy caused by fear. Without fear and resistance, death would simply be a transition to another dimension. "

― Shirley MacLaine , Dancing in the Light

17 " I found that no matter what unpleasantness I found myself involved with, if I stopped and asked myself, “Why have I created this? What am I learning from this?” the circumstance became not a tragedy but an enlightening experience. "

― Shirley MacLaine , Going Within: A Guide for Inner Transformation

18 " One drop of joy plus courage becomes passion, which enables you to take effective action without thought. One drop of joy plus discipline becomes empathy, the ability to know that your emotions are real and all those around you are real, which then restores your God-consciousness. "

― Shirley MacLaine , The Camino: A Journey of the Spirit

19 " Then there were times when Vassy compulsively yet touchingly would get very drunk and break down in great heaving sobs when we got home. No one could possibly understand what it meant to be a 'fucking Russian in America,' he sobbed. 'My fucking country, my beloved Russia,' he would cry. 'No one understands my country. You judge us, you condemn us, you believe we have swords in our teeth. You're so conditioned, so brainwashed, even more than we are. At least Russians know about America, not only bad things. And you here imagine Russia as a concentration camp! You don't like Commies! That's your problem. Now I hear Americans think 'Russian' is the same as evil, stupidity, idleness. That's dangerous! What about our culture, our music, our ingenuity, our patience, endurance--these are qualities, not drawbacks! Yes, we are fucking different, why not? Why should we be the same? Instead of trying to change each other, why don't we simply tolerate our differences and enjoy similarities? "

― Shirley MacLaine , Dancing in the Light

20 " Maybe it didn't really matter what we did to preserve ourselves. There was always some truck somewhere. The thing was not to let that stop you not to let it direct your life "

― Shirley MacLaine , Out on a Limb

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