Kathleen Tessaro famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

My husband claims I have an unhealthy obsession with secondhand bookshops. That I spend too much time daydreaming altogether. But either you intrinsically understand the attraction of searching for hidden treasure amongst rows of dusty shelves or you don't; it's a passion, bordering on a spiritual illness, which cannot be explained to the unaffected.
-- Kathleen Tessaro

#Spiritual #Husband #Passion
If you can capture a womans imagination, then you will have her. But imagination is a strange creature. It needs time and distance to function properly.
-- Kathleen Tessaro

#Love #Distance #Imagination
There is nothing more difficult than simplicity, and therefore, nothing more refined.
-- Kathleen Tessaro

#Simplicity #Difficult
There are no great fanfares for the truly great moments of your life. Just dripping taps and the sound of your own footsteps, walking from one room into another
-- Kathleen Tessaro

#Sound #Rooms #Moments
Most people assume that a muse is a creature of perfect beauty, poise and grace. Like the creatures from Greek mythology. They're wrong. In fact, there should be a marked absence of perfection in a muse--a gaping hole between what she is and what she might be. The ideal muse is a woman whose rough edges and contradictions drive you to fill in the blanks of her character. She is the irritant to your creativity. A remarkable possibility, waiting to be formed.
-- Kathleen Tessaro

#Creativity #Character #People
The universe is bound by unseen threads. We have only to untangle them a little to see a pattern unfold.
-- Kathleen Tessaro

#Unseen #Patterns #Littles

If after accepting the spiritual master and being initiated one does not follow the rules and regulations of devotional service, then he is again fallen.
A devotee should be fixed in the conclusion that, the spiritual master cannot be subject to criticism and should never be considered equal to a common man.
The holy name of Krishna has extraordinary spiritual potency because the name of God is nondifferent from God Himself.
By the grace of the spiritual master the cloud of the mercy of the Personality of Godhead is brought in, and then only, when the rains of Krishna consciousness fall, can the fire of material existence be extinguished.
Woman's work as a listener is never done. ... I thought I'd spent too much of my life listening for some damn man - for my father and now for my husband.
I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
In his fifty-six years he was at times many things, including a fugitive, prisoner, rising politician, army leader, legal advocate, rebel, dictator â€“ perhaps even a god â€“ as well as a husband, father, lover and adulterer. Few fictional heroes have ever done as much as Caius Julius Caesar.
Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages - just don't catch him at breakfast. Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London in the wicker basket of a hot-air balloon. They were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England.
Shun fear, it is the ague of the soul! a passion man created for himself--for sure that cramp of nature could not dwell in the warm realms of glory.

Kathleen Tessaro famous quotes

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