Mary Richards Quotes


"It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom."
- Mary Richards
(Related: Freedom, Obedience)

"To have character is to be big enough to take life on."
- Mary Richards
(Related: Life, Character)

"Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other."
- Mary Richards
(Related: Knowledge)

"Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern."
- Mary Richards
(Related: Work, Love, Concern, Play, Pleasure)

"The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized."
- Mary Richards
(Related: Imagination, Reality)

"Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will."
- Mary Richards
(Related: Enemies, Will)

"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 Richards
(Related: Life, Love, Fire, Order, Spirit)

"Inhabit ourselves that we may indeed do what we want to do."
- Mary Richards
(Related: May, Want)