Mary E. Pearson Quotes

I try to find something that applies not to me only, but to others, but don't try to control it too much. Essentially it is about what moves us, teaches us about ourselves.

When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful. But it's the intention of the work that's changed. I have fans now. I have a new purpose: to remind them that I am one of them, that we are one another. My consciousness has changed.

People are people, and they want to know about their own experiences.

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.

That's what I love about acting, you get to find little pieces of yourself in every character you play.

I just think that the only way we come to ourselves is through each other.

Because they're my stories, they're my version of events of the past three years. But I really hope people can hear their own stories within the songs and they can become our version of events.

I had begun to write novels because of a fierce, self-serving impulse in my own heart. I had not considered the potential in a book for felt communion, the bright largesse of intimately participating in the lives of other people.

Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.

And God is always calling me to open myself to all kinds of people that I've never thought about before and also calling me on this inward spiritual journey.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

As an actor, I've always wanted to do characters that would help me find my connection with others and connect all of us together. You always want the energy of the character, the spirit of the person, to enter you. I've been doing this for 26 years and some of the things I've done are always with me.

We saw in him what we seek in ourselves.

I think people will discover themselves in 'Ankahee.'

I feel like 'Amelie' is very much an extension of me. She's a contemporary woman who sees the world through her imagination.

Ramy' is based on a lot of personal things, and it's interesting to see how many people feel like it's their story. And how many people view it as this democratic thing that should represent them.

I'm writing my story so that others might see fragments of themselves.

I felt like a Tinker toy kid building my own self out of one of those toy building sets; for as she laid her life before me, I reassembled the tableau of her words like a picture puzzle, and as I did, so my own life was rebuilt.

She existed in her friends; there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew herself best when she was with them.

To truly know the world, look deeply within your own being; to truly know yourself, take real interest in the world.

When I woke up in you, Cassie. I wasn't fully human until I saw myself in your eyes." And then there are real human tears in his real human eyes, and it's my turn to hold him while his heart breaks. My turn to see myself in his eyes.

An unshared life is not living. He who shares does not lessen, but greatens, his life.

Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction, and certainly not in isolation.

Prongs rode again last night... You know, Harry, in a way, you did see your father last night... You found him inside yourself.