Miranda July Quotes

We're like Magic 8-Balls. After you ask your question and shake the 8-Ball, you read the answer in the little window. If you ever broke open a Magic 8-Ball with a hammer, you discovered that it contained a many-sided plastic object, with an answer on every facet, floating in a cylinder of murky blue fluid. The many-sided core held the answer to your question. My theory is that, as with our children, as with every surface of that geodesic dome inside the 8-Ball, every age we've ever been is who we are.

I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.

What's the message in Metallica? There is no message, but if there was a message, it really should be look within yourself, don't listen to me, don't listen to James, don't listen to anybody, look within yourself for the answers.

Dreams really tell you about yourself more than anything else in this world could ever tell you.

I've had something sort of like angel cards where you pull out an angel card that turns out, like, grandmother was watching over me. And I believe, in some way, I haven't been brave enough to engage with tarot cards mostly because they always end on a bad note. I'm sure if I understood tarot cards more I wouldn't be as fearful.

I recommend anybody go to a bookstore, go down the self-help or new-age section, and just walk those aisles. See what book jumps out at you; there's a good chance it's a book you need in your life. That's basically how I find the books that I read.

Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it's coming to tell you something about you that you're acting like you don't know. Something about yourself, or your relationship with God.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.

Do you know what a Palmist once said to me? She said: will you let go!

The best writing really does come from the deepest, most private part of you.

There's so much of our psychological makeup which is impermissible for us to explore because it's inappropriate or perverse or scary. I'm interested in exploring that in myself. I try to be honest with myself about everything that I feel. I'm not saying I'm able to do that all the time, but it's something I'm interested in.

There have been many dreams which have been personal guides for me.

The thing is, about a character, it's not about being right, it's about the truth. The truth comes from within, so you have to search as an artist for the truth.

If you have a trust in and an expectation of your own solitude, everything that you need to know will be revealed to you.

Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves.

The key is within each of us. No instructions come with it.

Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

Indeed, the hereditary gift of prophecy will go to the grave with me.

You can fool a lot of yourself but you can't fool the soul.

The next time you find yourself racing quickly down the street, know that you're not only running to your next appointment, you are literally running from contact with your truest feelings, deepest needs and most valuable insights.

I do believe in prophecy.

I can do Tarot cards and all that.

The best advice Drake's given anybody is to know yourself. It's the most important thing to live by.

If you're really truthful with yourself, it's a wonderful guidance.