Marge Piercy Quotes

Any time you're lucky enough to get on a show people watch, it's a good thing.

All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things. That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than a slave. Many people desire those things only for themselves and their friends; they are quite content that their enemies should suffer. These people can only be refuted by science: Humankind has become so much one family that we cannot ensure our own prosperity except by ensuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.

If your life turns out to be good and you have a tremendous amount of luck in your life, it's a good thing to turn around and make it work for others.

Good luck reaches farther than long arms.

The soul of the world is nourished by people's Happiness.

I want peace. Happiness. Not only for myself. For everybody.

People all say that I've had a bad break. But today... today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.

If others are happy, we will be happy. If others suffer, ultimately we all suffer.

Generosity is luck going in the opposite direction, away from you. If you're generous to someone, if you do something to help him out, you are in effect making him lucky. This is important. It's like inviting yourself into a community of good fortune.

Francis of Assisi tells us we should work to build peace. But there is no true peace without truth! There cannot be true peace if everyone is his own criterion, if everyone can always claim exclusively his own rights, without at the same time caring for the good of others, of everyone, on the basis of the nature that unites every human being on this earth.

All society is held together by nonviolence even as the earth is held in her position by gravitation.

Be grateful for good breaks and kind favors but don't count on them.

What men usually say of misfortunes, that they never come alone, may with equal truth be said of good fortune; nay, of other circumstances which gather round us in a harmonious way, whether it arise from a kind of fatality, or that man has the power of attracting to himself things that are mutually related.

It really is better to be lucky than to be good.

Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.

Our earnest prayer is that God will graciously vouchsafe prosperity, happiness, and peace to all our neighbors, and like blessings to all the peoples and powers of the earth

If lucky be not proud; if unlucky, do not despond.

It's hard to tell our bad luck from our good luck sometimes. And most of us have wept copious tears over someone or something when if we'd understood the situation better we might have celebrated our good fortune instead.

I feel honored to be a part of something that provided people with entertainment and that inspired conversations. I feel very, very fortunate.

I'm living my dream, everything fell into the right place for me.

If you're not failing all the time, you're not creating a situation where you can get lucky.

Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by him.

I've been very lucky as far as the things that I've picked, and the way they've worked out. I try to pass on stuff that looks like it's gonna be a bad time.

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation ... it is common to wish well to oneself, but in our technically unified world, wishing well to oneself is sure to be futile unless it is combined with wishing well to others.

I knew even then how rare that kind of love is. Only the luckiest people get to experience it at all.