Magic is a matter of focusing the disciplined will. But sometimes the will must be abandoned. The secret lies in knowing when to exercise control, and when to let go. Marion Zimmer Bradley More Quotes by Marion Zimmer Bradley More Quotes From Marion Zimmer Bradley To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom. Marion Zimmer Bradley ignorant understanding wisdom Beware what you speak,' said the Merlin very softly, 'for indeed the words we speak make shadows of what is to come, and by speaking them we bring them to pass, my king. Marion Zimmer Bradley words-we-speak shadow kings Love is the only prayer I know. Marion Zimmer Bradley avalon prayer love-is There are ignorant priests and ignorant people, who are all too ready to cry sorcery if a woman is only a little wiser than they are! Marion Zimmer Bradley sorcery ignorant people The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination. Marion Zimmer Bradley life-journey despair hope I have called on the Goddess and found her within myself Marion Zimmer Bradley goddess paganism found I never left you; I never will leave you. While life lasts, and beyond, I am here. Marion Zimmer Bradley left lasts Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie. Marion Zimmer Bradley heart lying children Without a dream to light your way, the world is a very dark place. Marion Zimmer Bradley light dark dream The Goddess does not shower her gifts on those who reject them. Marion Zimmer Bradley goddess showers doe The older I grow the more I become certain that it makes no difference what words we use to tell the same truths. Marion Zimmer Bradley certain differences use Darling, I wish I could help you. Try to remember this: to live, you need every experience. Some will come in glory and in beauty, and some in pain and what seems like ugliness. But - they are. Life consists of opposites in balance. Marion Zimmer Bradley pain wish opposites And I must believe that man has the power to know the right, to choose between good and evil and know that his choice has made a difference. Marion Zimmer Bradley differences men believe By what men think, we create the world around us, daily new. Marion Zimmer Bradley avalon men thinking [T]he House of Maidens was for little girls whose whole duty in life was to spill things, break things, and forget things . . . until they had spilled, broken, and forgotten everything they could, and thus made room in their lives for a little wisdom. Marion Zimmer Bradley girl broken house There is no such thing as a true tale. Truth has many faces and the truth is like to the old road to Avalon; it depends on your own will, and your own thoughts, whither the road will take you. Marion Zimmer Bradley avalon truth-is faces There is no sorrow like the memory of love and the knowledge that it is gone forever. Marion Zimmer Bradley sorrow forever memories From these Christians who came to [Avalon] to escape the bigotry of their own kind I learned something, at last, of the Nazarene, the carpenter's son who had attained Godhead in his own life and preached a rule of tolerance; and so I came to see that my quarrel was never with the Christ, but with his foolish and narrow priests who mistook their own narrowness for his. Marion Zimmer Bradley tolerance christian son Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision. Marion Zimmer Bradley mind writing fiction There's no "magic secret"; writing is like everything else; ten percent inspiration or talent, and ninety percent hard work. Persistence; keeping at it till you get there. As Agnes de Mille said, it means working every day—bored, tired, weary, or with a fever of a hundred and two. Marion Zimmer Bradley hard-work inspiration writing
