Melissa Gilbert quotes

“My therapist shared a theory she had come across, and I liked it. It held that before making your next journey in this life, your soul sits at a large, circular conference table and chooses the souls who are going to be a part of your life. As for which particular people would be chosen, I figured they would be individuals from previous lives with whom there was still unfinished business.”
-- Melissa Gilbert

#Journey Quotes #People Quotes #Soul Quotes

“I grew up in a dysfunctional family.”
-- Melissa Gilbert

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“My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce, step-children, dysfunction, and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction.”
-- Melissa Gilbert

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“Don't like small talk, love rainy days.”
-- Melissa Gilbert

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“My life was a mystery even as I lived it.”
-- Melissa Gilbert

Source : "Little House on the Prairie". Book by Melissa Gilbert, www.today.com. 1971.

#Mystery Quotes

“Although I was raised Jewish, my upbringing didn't include any formal religious education or training.”
-- Melissa Gilbert

Source : Melissa Gilbert (2009). “Prairie Tale: A Memoir”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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“Thank God I have four sons. The mother/daughter relationship is one of mankind's great mysteries, and for womankind, it can be hellaciously complicated. My mother and I are quintessential examples of the rewards and frustrations, and the joys and infuriations it can yield.”
-- Melissa Gilbert

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

#Daughter Quotes #Mother Quotes #Son Quotes

“To me, at forty-four years old, my book was a search for truth and identity.”
-- Melissa Gilbert

Source : Melissa Gilbert (2009). “Prairie Tale: A Memoir”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

#Book Quotes #Years Quotes #Identity Quotes

“The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.”

“Instead of bringing back 1600 plants, we might return from our journeys with a collection of small unfêted but life-enhancing thoughts.”

“Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.”

“Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.”

“I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.”

“The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.”

Source : "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.

“Life is just a chance to grow a soul.”

“I was a common man, and I will always remain a common man. No amount of stardom will ever consume my soul. Money comes, money goes. Fame comes, fame goes. I believe every human being is a celebrity in their own right.”

“I sold my soul to the devil in L.A”

Source : Song: Country Boy, Album: Town Line, 2011

“I just bared my soul to you and all I get is an ‘okay’?”