Beverly Sills

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

Beverly Sills

A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn’t let them get her down.

Beverly Sills

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Beverly Sills

Attachment to spiritual things is… just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.

Beverly Sills

Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle’s light.

Beverly Sills

Don’t get me started on critics.

Beverly Sills

I can’t be happy every day but I can be cheerful.

Beverly Sills

I don’t share blame. I don’t share credit. And I don’t share desserts.

Beverly Sills

I got out while they were still fighting to buy tickets to hear me. I believe in getting out when you’re on top, and that’s what I did.

Beverly Sills

I lived through the garbage. I might as well dine on the caviar.

Beverly Sills