Quotes from Shirley MacLaine

It is incredible, when you start believing in angels your life becomes a lot smoother.

You let the energy go wherever it wants. I have such a rich spiritual life. Most people take drugs to experience that.

The comedy of class, played so straight, is a wonderful thing for an actor to sink their teeth into.

I'm a peaceful person once work ethic is established.

The spirit is something to be enjoyed. It is not a harsh discipline. And I think people should take some time everyday for some kind of moving meditation, like Qigong or Tai Chi.

I don't think you go out of style when you're living in the present most of the time. And I think that is what I do.

Audrey was the kind of person who when she saw someone else suffering tried to take their pain on herself. She was a healer. She knew how to love. You didn't have to be in constant contact with her to feel you had a friend. We always picked up right where we left off.

We are not victims of the world we see, we are victims of the way we see the world.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.

I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.

It's useless to hold a person to anything he says wile he's in love, drunk, or running for office.

Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.

You think you have a handle on God, the Universe, and the Great White Light until you go home for Thanksgiving. In an hour, you realize how far you've got to go and who is the real turkey.

One of the most erogenous zones of a woman is her intelligence.

Release and resolve fear, and what you want flows freely.

I believe we have neglected to see that terrorism is just a convenient excuse for those in power to gently instruct us to go quietly into that good night of being compliant and unrevolutionary citizens who willingly become subjugated to authority.

New Age thinking asks that each person take responsibility for everything that happens in life because everything in life is connected.

Someday change will be accepted as life itself

Pain was nothing but resistance; resistance to the God energy caused by fear. Without fear and resistance, death would simply be a transition to another dimension.

I found that no matter what unpleasantness I found myself involved with, if I stopped and asked myself, "Why have I created this? What am I learning from this?" the circumstance became not a tragedy but an enlightening experience.

One drop of joy plus courage becomes passion, which enables you to take effective action without thought. One drop of joy plus discipline becomes empathy, the ability to know that your emotions are real and all those around you are real, which then restores your God-consciousness.

Maybe it didn't really matter what we did to preserve ourselves. There was always some truck somewhere. The thing was not to let that stop you not to let it direct your life

But Honeybun,' I would counter, 'you can't have real love without respect.' 'That is not true in Russia. You either love or you respect. You can not do both.' 'How do you mean?' 'With love you have jealousy, possessiveness, and many other emotions and passions which make respect impossible. We know that in Russia, therefore we accept it.