Mary Caroline Richards quote: "Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape."

It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they ma...
MARY CAROLINE RICHARDS

Truth is reality.
MARY CAROLINE RICHARDS

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of t...
MARY CAROLINE RICHARDS

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.
MARY CAROLINE RICHARDS

To have character is to be big enough to take life on.
MARY CAROLINE RICHARDS

It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the fa...
MARY CAROLINE RICHARDS

Inhabit ourselves that we may indeed do what we want to do.
MARY CAROLINE RICHARDS

The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.
MARY CAROLINE RICHARDS

Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better ...
MARY CAROLINE RICHARDS

Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.
MARY CAROLINE RICHARDS

May I forget what ought to be forgotten; and recall, unfailing, all that ought to be recalled, each ...
MARY CAROLINE DAVIES

Be free, and live life fully.
CAROLINE SHAW

I'm obsessed with frozen yogurt because you don't feel totally guilty eating it. It's no...
CAROLINE SUNSHINE

Our parents were very strict. Not in a brutal or awful way, but there were definite rules, such as a...
CAROLINE CORR

I love a good steak. I like my meat. I love broccoli - it's one of my favorites - and corn, too....
CAROLINE WOZNIACKI

I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and...
CAROLINE KNAPP

I am just this small-town Canberra girl that's taken riding a little kid's bike on dirt trac...
CAROLINE BUCHANAN

Plot is what happens in your story. Every story needs structure, just as every body needs a skeleton...
CAROLINE LAWRENCE

Indie bookstores love writers as much as they love readers, and there is something about a community...
CAROLINE LEAVITT

For a good book has this quality, that it is not merely a petrifaction of its author, but that once ...
CAROLINE LEJEUNE

We have been friends together,
In sunshine and in shade;
Since first beneath the chestnut-tree...
CAROLINE NORTON

You can't get any braver than going on national television to be weighed.
CAROLINE RHEA

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.
CAROLINE SCHOEDER

A woman's destiny, they say, is not fulfilled until she holds in her arms her own little book.
CAROLINE MYTINGER

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any...
CAROLINE GORDON

The dog’s agenda is simple, fathomable, overt: I want. “I want to go out, come in, eat something...
CAROLINE KNAPP

There comes a moment when we must choose how we’re going to love someone. Some forms of love leave...
CAROLINE GEORGE

Silent companions of the lonely hour,
Friends, who can never alter or forsake,
Who for inconst...
CAROLINE NORTON

In the cold change which time hath wrought on love
(The snowy winter of his summer prime),
Sho...
CAROLINE NORTON

Femininity appears to be one of those pivotal qualities that is so important no one can define it.
CAROLINE BIRD

My beautiful, my beautiful! That standest meekly by, with thy proudly-arched and glossy neck, and da...
CAROLINE NORTON

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any...
CAROLINE GORDON

When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
CAROLINE RHEA

I tell myself that some names can be mistakes, like Mxyplyzyk, a store in New York that lost custome...
CAROLINE LEAVITT

There is a particular whir of agitation about female hunger, a low-level thrumming of shoulds and sh...
CAROLINE KNAPP

If a kid disappears, now there's Amber Alerts: they know this-this-this. In the '50s, we kid...
CAROLINE LEAVITT

I had a nervous breakdown at 17 when my first love left me, and he was a typical bad boy, albeit a c...
CAROLINE LEAVITT

We need a President who is not afraid of complexity, who believes in an open and tolerant society, a...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

By definition, memoir demands a certain degree of introspection and self-disclosure: In order to ful...
CAROLINE KNAPP

In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

It is not easy to stand up against your constituents or your friends or colleagues or your community...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

Me, I walk along and feel quietly defensive, a recluse in the Land of We. That's quite the loade...
CAROLINE KNAPP

Happy and alone, you say? Reclusive and merry? How oxymoronic! Pas possible! Alas, the concept is lo...
CAROLINE KNAPP

These are big trade-offs for a simple piece of cake - add five hundred calories, subtract well-being...
CAROLINE KNAPP

Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whi...
CAROLINE KNAPP

On the broad spectrum of solitude, I lean toward the extreme end: I work alone, as well as live alon...
CAROLINE KNAPP

Surely, it's one of terrorism's intended effects, to literally stun our morale, to blow up s...
CAROLINE KNAPP

Mastery over the body - its impulses, its needs, its size - is paramount; to lose control is to risk...
CAROLINE KNAPP

Cottage cheese is one of our culture's most visible symbols of self-denial; marketed honestly, i...
CAROLINE KNAPP

I go to a restaurant with a group of women and pray that we can order lunch without falling into the...
CAROLINE KNAPP

Tiny slices, no frosting, forty-five minutes on the StairMaster: These are the conditions, variation...
CAROLINE KNAPP

When you study a dog you love, you find beauty in every small detail, and so it is with Lucille: I h...
CAROLINE KNAPP

Around the time I began starving, in the early eighties, the visual image had begun to supplant text...
CAROLINE KNAPP

The kinds of roles dogs fill can be hard to come by in human relationships. We touch the dog or the ...
CAROLINE KNAPP

Before you open the lunch menu or order that cheeseburger or consider eating the cake with the frost...
CAROLINE KNAPP

Our culture thrives on black-and-white narratives, clearly defined emotions, easy endings, and so, t...
CAROLINE KNAPP

My recipe for bliss on a Friday night consists of a 'New York Times' crossword puzzle and a ...
CAROLINE KNAPP

You'll reach into your wallet to brandish a photograph of a new puppy, and a friend will say, &#...
CAROLINE KNAPP

I eat breakfast pretty much 'round the clock - muffins in the morning, scones for lunch, cereal ...
CAROLINE KNAPP

The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind.
CAROLINE KNAPP

What is this drive to be thinner, prettier, better dressed, other? Who exactly is this other and wha...
CAROLINE KNAPP

Sharing the holiday with other people, and feeling that you're giving of yourself, gets you past...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I di...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They're short, they're intense. Nobody has ...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love ...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always re...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

I have a lifelong devotion to public service.
CAROLINE KENNEDY

When you're going through something, whether it's a wonderful thing like having a child or a...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

Growing up in politics I know that women decide all elections because we do all the work.
CAROLINE KENNEDY

I can see both sides of term limits, and I think, in different positions, term limits make more sens...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

Change isn't easy, it takes time.
CAROLINE KENNEDY

You have to remind kids to stay connected to the meaning of Christmas. Sometimes it takes a little b...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

I feel like my grandparents and parents gave me a tremendous amount. And if I can pass some of that ...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and la...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut i...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

I feel that my father's greatest legacy was the people he inspired to get involved in public ser...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

After my mom died, there was so much written about her fashion and her style and all that, and I fel...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

John and I were lucky because our mother was a strong woman with high expectations and a strong sens...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

I think my mother... made it clear that you have to live life by your own terms and you have to not ...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency.
CAROLINE KENNEDY

When you make the right decision, it doesn't really matter what anyone else thinks.
CAROLINE KENNEDY

It's true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look ba...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

Every day, you have to make three hours of music, just randomly improvising, and that's a great ...
CAROLINE SHAW

How dreadful...to be caught up in a game and have no idea of the rules.
CAROLINE STEVERMER

Oh Beck, I love reading your e-mail. Learning your life. And I am careful; I always mark new message...
CAROLINE KEPNES

I have a very close relationship with my parents.
CAROLINE WOZNIACKI

I truly believe that it's all of the hard times that make you step up to the next level, and tha...
CAROLINE BUCHANAN

As a kid, I always wanted to be Carol Burnett or Johnny Carson. I love to chat and entertain.
CAROLINE RHEA

I love The Cheesecake Factory, especially the chicken marsala. I almost always pick that dish; it ta...
CAROLINE WOZNIACKI

Census figures be damned: If you choose to be alone, you're destined to spend a certain amount o...
CAROLINE KNAPP

I love real books, paper books, but I also love buying online, and I think that people are more will...
CAROLINE LEAVITT

The problem with books is that they end.
CAROLINE KEPNES

Fall in love with a dog, and in many ways you enter a new orbit, a universe that features not just n...
CAROLINE KNAPP

Women are actually superb at math; they just happen to engage in their own variety of it, an intrica...
CAROLINE KNAPP

Academic achievement was something I'd always sought as a form of reward. Good grades pleased my...
CAROLINE KNAPP

I've done a lot of performance practice, Baroque playing, and some of the joy and the challenge ...
CAROLINE SHAW

I think it's important to always keep professional and surround yourself with good people, work ...
CAROLINE WINBERG

I loved every minute of my three years majoring in classics at Berkeley.
CAROLINE LAWRENCE

I don't remember my father reading to me, but I remember him telling me bedtime stories. I got t...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

The bedrock of our democracy is the rule of law and that means we have to have an independent judici...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

What drains your spirit drains your body. What fuels your spirit fuels your body.
CAROLINE MYSS

Before you get a dog, you can't quite imagine what living with one might be like; afterward, you...
CAROLINE KNAPP

Anorexia is a response to cultural images of the female body - waiflike, angular - that both capitul...
CAROLINE KNAPP

I write about times and places I would visit in a time machine, like ancient Rome or the Wild West.
CAROLINE LAWRENCE

By the time I was 5, I was already an outcast. It was the early 1960s, and I was part of the only Je...
CAROLINE LEAVITT

I try to lead a pretty active lifestyle. My biggest hobby is traveling with my family. I love to tra...
CAROLINE SUNSHINE

Everybody knows, nobody's talking - from LIE --debut novel coming September 1st from St. Martin's Pr...
CAROLINE BOCK

Of course, the problem with self-transformation is that after a while, you don't know which version ...
CAROLINE KNAPP

I really didn't even have time to get that many lessons, to be honest, because I was suddenly on...
CAROLINE CORR

We do not judge great art. It judges us.
CAROLINE GORDON

I would love to work with Johnny Depp. I really admire him as an actor, and personally, in my opinio...
CAROLINE SUNSHINE

It's heartbreaking but we're trying to get over it. As disappointed as we were, I think that...
CAROLINE DHAVERNAS

I like ungroomed men. The relaxed look. I don't like fussy guys. Just shower and use deodorant.
CAROLINE WINBERG

And I've played piano since I was little, so I was originally the piano player in the band.
CAROLINE CORR

Actually, I wear the nail polish to hide how grubby my nails are.
CAROLINE CORR

A lot of the songs are written on piano or guitar, so I contribute, and I have done so since the beg...
CAROLINE CORR

We're lucky to have the family connection. We're close and close musically as well.
CAROLINE CORR

What operators should be doing ?- and what the standards bodies working in this area are encouraging...
CAROLINE CHAPPELL

The next shift is to an object-oriented form of distributed application that is Web-enabled and peer...
CAROLINE CHAPPELL

Until recently, the SDP has been very much a mobile network initiative, and most SDP suppliers have ...
CAROLINE CHAPPELL

The nature of the telecom service business is changing -- services are becoming more numerous, varie...
CAROLINE CHAPPELL

This finding adds to the mounting evidence that the longer a mother breastfeeds her infant, the grea...
CAROLINE CHANTRY

We found that babies who received an additional two months of full breastfeeding were over four time...
CAROLINE CHANTRY

It may become burdensome to pump regularly even if a woman has an accommodating employer.
CAROLINE CHANTRY

Most women experience difficulties when they leave the hospital. These challenges often lead to prem...
CAROLINE CHANTRY

I'm gonna push this as far as I can push it, because my son did not deserve to die.
CAROLINE CAMPBELL

He was so kind...everybody loved him...everybody in Trumann loved Junior.
CAROLINE CAMPBELL

One time by accident, you know...but 3 times, in the main organs. My son loved you Boo Boo and I jus...
CAROLINE CAMPBELL

God bless my son...and just have a prayer for him today, cause today's his birthday...he would've be...
CAROLINE CAMPBELL

Doctor referral is necessary for this because we're trying to target the kids that are most at risk.
CAROLINE BROWN

From Sunday there will just one expert who will stay on for two weeks.
CAROLINE BROWN

No new cases have been detected.
CAROLINE BROWN

We released the fourth book at midnight and we also had a slumber party for the kids and parents at ...
CAROLINE BROWN

We won't turn people away (who qualify), ... If we did, what would be the reason for being open?
CAROLINE BROWN

With gas prices continuing to go up, I just thought it made the most sense to go with Zipcar, and so...
CAROLINE BROWN

It's not just for summer, it should be a lifestyle.
CAROLINE BROWN

We're just a little disappointed about that.
CAROLINE BROWN

In the programs we've run before, I would say that more than 75% of the participants have NOT truly ...
CAROLINE BROWN

Employers really need them. One employer created two job openings and said to fill them with displac...
CAROLINE BROWN

Seeing those orange bags, mile after mile after mile is thrilling because you're part of something b...
CAROLINE BRADFORD

It's big and good and wonderful. People honk and wave. It's exciting to be out there. We get a lot o...
CAROLINE BRADFORD

The best advertising for this is spring. Snow melts, the trash is revealed and it is disgusting. And...
CAROLINE BRADFORD

We went through a lot of trouble to get this big, blue, vinyl suitcase out of the tree. It was gone ...
CAROLINE BRADFORD

The current board has a good track record of releasing water, but will the next board by so environm...
CAROLINE BRADFORD

It's just that all the people that were picking up trash started picking up trash together.
CAROLINE BRADFORD

I think it's a good idea. It changes the power structure in our state, and it needs to be changed. I...
CAROLINE BRADFORD

The most convenient place to land at that point was Dulles.
CAROLINE BOREN

There is increased scrutiny across the board about safety in the bag well area and on the tarmac wit...
CAROLINE BOREN

We're working with the NTSB to review all the information relative to this event.
CAROLINE BOREN

We really have seen a strong track record and then with the incidents this week we've also seen them...
CAROLINE BOREN

I describe this as very much a rare occurrence, despite the fact that we've had a few incidences rec...
CAROLINE BOREN

We are fortunate to have a journalist of Paul's stature leading our internal communications efforts....
CAROLINE BOREN

Microsoft has no comment on Intel, and is in the quiet period leading up to its first-quarter earnin...
CAROLINE BOREN

I think people here are getting their work done, but definitely there are conversations here and the...
CAROLINE BOREN

It's so nice to have all the added space of our new store. The first floor is strictly about wedding...
CAROLINE BEREND

He helped with all the remodeling in all three of the stores. When we opened in 1990 in the old bank...
CAROLINE BEREND

This month is so busy, it's almost unbearable. Some days we get so busy we don't get to eat lunch or...
CAROLINE BEREND

I had a bride-to-be walk in here the week after Christmas who wanted a dress to take with her to be ...
CAROLINE BEREND

The condo market in Arizona is nuts right now. People can't go to California because you have to pay...
CAROLINE AUZA

The condo market is going very well here in Tucson. Prices are escalating, and tenants have a great ...
CAROLINE AUZA

We like to sell to tenants.
CAROLINE AUZA

It shouldn't take more than 18 months to sell off the condos. We don't kick tenants out. We let them...
CAROLINE AUZA

Just about every apartment complex in the north part of town is being converted. The price is so muc...
CAROLINE AUZA

The majority of investors would like to keep the current tenant, and if someone wants to stay, we wi...
CAROLINE AUZA

It's the law of supply and demand. Demand is down, supply is up, so the price is down.
CAROLINE ALLEN

It allows us to go out and sweep the city at a much faster pace.
CAROLINE ALLEN

Our focus is getting the power back to our customers.
CAROLINE ALLEN

They'll be down as long as it takes to get it repaired. Luckily, they have a generator, and that hel...
CAROLINE ALLEN

We brought the mall back, they were brought back really quickly.
CAROLINE ALLEN

We haven't raised our rates since 1992. In that time, the consumer price index has increased by 53 p...
CAROLINE ALLEN

We are going to individually visit all of those houses to shut off the gas meters and then when the ...
CAROLINE ALLEN

I don't think it gets any better than this; it's an opportunity we all want to take advantage of. We...
CAROLINE WILLIAMS

We need our people here. It's a sixth-man. [Against Louisville], when we were hitting our big shots ...
CAROLINE WILLIAMS

Now we all know what our roles are now, each person. we're all working together better.
CAROLINE WILLIAMS

We had them on the run in the first half. They're a legitimate No. 1, and we were right there with t...
CAROLINE WILLIAMS

His helmet didn't fit right.
CAROLINE WILLIAMS

We build off of it every year. We know who will get it in the end. It'll be us.
CAROLINE WILLIAMS

We had a lot of open shots, some we didn't hit. But we hit some big ones in a stretch to get ahead.
CAROLINE WILLIAMS

I think in the very beginning we all were really pushing the ball, and Dee was doing a really good j...
CAROLINE WILLIAMS

It's just such an energy booster. When you hear the whole crowd, it gets you up. It definitely chang...
CAROLINE WILLIAMS

Part of the goal was not to spend more resources preparing for trial. We took him off the street. We...
CAROLINE SHEPHERD

I knew he was going to get jail time on the back end in New York. The main reason for the bulk of hi...
CAROLINE SHEPHERD

She was a cooperating witness from the beginning.
CAROLINE SHEPHERD

The main reason for the bulk of his sentence being probation is to get restitution for the victims.
CAROLINE SHEPHERD

Realistically, I think we accomplished what we hoped to do. He is [now] a convicted felon, his busin...
CAROLINE SHEPHERD

Do I think she's not equally guilty? No. That is 100 percent a negotiating tactic.
CAROLINE SHEPHERD

To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut i...
CAROLINE SCHLOSSBERG

After my mother died in 1994, my brother and I were faced with the task of deciding what to do with ...
CAROLINE SCHLOSSBERG

We need a President who is not afraid of complexity, who believes in an open and tolerant society, a...
CAROLINE SCHLOSSBERG

The happiest years of my mother's life were spent in Washington, D.C. It was where she met my father...
CAROLINE SCHLOSSBERG

The press is coming up against something that is very fragile, and that is personal and individual s...
CAROLINE SCHLOSSBERG

It's hard for me to listen to President Bush invoking my father's memory to attack John Kerry. Senat...
CAROLINE SCHLOSSBERG

We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
CAROLINE NORTON

Of all the joys that lighten suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a new-born child?
CAROLINE NORTON

All our calm is in that balm - Not lost but gone before.
CAROLINE NORTON

It's going to be a fun match, very competitive.
CAROLINE MATHES

She's improved. She's got more ammunition, a better head and a better volley.
CAROLINE MATHES

Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

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Mary Caroline Richards

Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Mary Caroline Richards

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