"Where there is peace, God is." ~George Herbert

"Carve your blessings in stone." ~Anon
"I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again." ~William Penn
"Dictum sapienti sat est - A word to a wise person is sufficient." ~Cicero Ovid Seneca

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3/31/12

Bayard Taylor Quotes


Photo: Orchids
Hartwig Schroettke Residence
Bohol, Philippines
November 2, 2011

"Around the pillars of the palm-tree bower
The orchids cling, in rose and purple spheres;
Shield-broad the lily floats; the aloe flower
Foredates its hundred years."
~Bayard Taylor, Canopus
(from Your Dictionary of Quotes)

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"The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring." ~Bayard Taylor

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Bette Davis Quotes


"Everybody has a heart. Except some people." ~Bette Davis

"Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone-but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding." ~Bette Davis

"Pleasure of love lasts but a moment; pain of love lasts a lifetime." ~Bette Davis

"We’re all busy little bees, full of stings, making honey day and night, aren’t we honey." ~Bette Davis

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Jamie Paolinetti - imagination

"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless." ~Jamie Paolinetti

Maurice P. Ware Memorable ONE LINERS


"Darling,I love you too and we will be together till it's time to go from this world." ~MPW. 13/08/2914

"In my free time, I go out for a ride out on my bike and gardening, and few trips on the ferry." ~MPW

"Love and patience is what we have." ~MPW

"My heart will come in to your heart, and be as one." ~MPW

"The road is long no matter how far you are away from me, but I will get there by your side." ~MPW

"The sun will always rise each day." ~Maurice P. Ware

"There is no age on having a laugh as there is no age barrier when you are in love." ~MPW

"To laugh and be together is what makes our love strong." ~MPW

"We can build our love and have all our loving moments together." ~MPW

"We have only one life, and each day is a blessing to enjoy, and live it to the full; and enjoy the sun and the lovely blue sky and the rain." ~MPW

"We were on an island just you and me, and living our dream together under the sunny sky and lovely love at night in the moonlight." ~MPW

"You're a rose that grows in my heart to love." ~MPW

"You have my heart to hold." ~MPW

"Your smile is in my heart and each day you're there." ~MPW

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Francis Quarles Quotes


"Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou hast pleased thyself, there thou abidest." ~Francis Quarles

"Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived." ~Francis Quarles

"Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester." ~Francis Quarles

"He that hath promised pardon on our repentance hat not promised life till we repent." ~Francis Quarles

"If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail." ~Francis Quarles

"Our God and Souldiers we alike adore,
Evn at the Brink of danger; not before:
After deliverance, both alike required;
Our Gods forgotten, …"
~Francis Quarles

"That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end." ~Francis Quarles

"The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were." ~Francis Quarles

"The fountain of beauty is the heart and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber." ~Francis Quarles

"The road to perseverance lies by doubt." ~Francis Quarles

"Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains." ~Francis Quarles

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Hannah Arendt Quotes

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"Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but antipolitical, perhaps the most powerful of all antipolitical human forces." ~Hannah Arendt (1906–1975), German-born U.S. political philosopher.

"Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom." ~Hannah Arendt

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Arlene Blum - footprints

“You never conquer a mountain. You stand on the summit a few moments, then the wind blows your footprints away.” ~Arlene Blum

Julius Erving - short end

"If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end." ~Julius Erving

H Geneen - leadership

"Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions." ~H Geneen

Thought for Today - Only The Best

"The best ornament is Humility. The richest wealth is Wisdom. The strongest weapon is Patience The best security is Faith The best tonic is Laughter." ~Thought for Today-UK

William George Jordan - sin of humanity

"Ingratitude, the most popular sin of humanity, is forgetfulness of heart." ~William George Jordan

St. Clement of Alexandra - hope

"If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes." ~St. Clement of Alexandra

Veronica Chambers - adventure

"There was nothing a good adventure couldn't cure." ~Veronica Chambers

Sarah Ayoub - good fight

"There is such thing as a good fight. In the process, I gain my independence, battled cultural and social stereotypes, and discovered there is a love worth fighting for." ~ Sarah Ayoub, "Was Our Love Worth the Fight?", Sunday Telegraph Magazine, January 29-February 4, 2012 Issue

Ari Berk - life

“In life, a person will come and go from many homes. We may leave a house, a town, a room, but that does not mean those places leave us. Once entered, we never entirely depart the homes we make for ourselves in the world. They follow us, like shadows, until we come upon them again, waiting for us in the mist.”
Ari Berk, D

Damon Runyon - winner

"You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge." ~Damon Runyon

Thought for Today - With Love

"Teaching others is best done with love. Once the heart has understood the mind opens." ~Thought for Today-UK

Learn To Create Love
"If I limit the love I give to just one or two, it will eventually go stale. If I learn to create love inside my heart and silently give it to everyone I meet, love will grace every corner of my life." ~Thought for Today-UK

David Crosby - loneliness

“It's so lonely when you don't even know yourself.” ~David Crosby on Loneliness

Bernard Malamud - life

“There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.”
~Bernard Malamud

Isaac Bickerstaffe - sailor

“How happy is the sailor's life, from coast to coast to roam; in every port he finds a wife, in every land a home.” ~Isaac Bickerstaffe

Thought for Today - Helping All

"Try never to feel that you are competing with anyone; it is better to have the feeling that you are helping all." ~Thought for Today-UK

3/30/12

Muhammad Ali Quotes


"Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream a vision." ~Muhammad Ali

"Children make you want to start life over." ~Muhammad Ali

"Everything that God made valuable in this world is covered and hard to get to. Diamonds are covered and protected deep down in the ground. Pearls are found deep down at the bottom of the ocean covered up and protected in a beautiful shell. Way down in the mine, covered over with layers and layers of rocks, you will find the gold. You've got to work hard to get them. Your body is sacred. You're far more precious than diamonds and pearls, and you should be covered too." ~Muhammad Ali

"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee – His hands can’t hit what his eyes can’t see." ~Muhammad Ali

"Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything." ~Muhammad Ali

"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life." ~Muhammed Ali

"I hated every minute of training, but I said, Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion." ~Muhammad Ali

"If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it." ~Muhammad Ali

"Impossible is not a fact. Its an opinion." ~Muhammad Ali

"It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe." ~Muhammad Ali

"Looking at life from a different perspective makes you realuse that it's not the deer that is crossing the road, rather it's the road that is crossing the forest." ~Muhammad Ali

"Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do -- they all contain truths." ~Muhammad Ali -

"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth." ~Muhammad Ali

"The man who has no imagination has no wings." ~Muhammad Ali

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Friedrich Von Schlegel -man

"Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself." ~Friedrich Von Schlegel

3/27/12

Leah C. Dancel on LIFE

"Let the candles of life keep burning." ~Leah C. Dancel, FB, 14 July 2013

"Life is a ballad by itself, a song to sing and music to live on and the note is its own parody." ~Leah Dancel

"Life is a great Eye Opener especially if you are someone who experienced factual difficulties of struggles in order to survive." ~lcd, FB, 30 April 2012

"Sometimes life is a luxury when you're on your own." ~Leah C. Dancel, 21 June 2009, Sunday's Malingering blog

"To Everyone, my humble Thanks. Yes, celebrating life while still alive is our way of thanking God for sustaining us through His grace, mercy and blessing. Am grateful." ~Leah C. Dancel, 18 August 2013&

Leah C. Dancel - FAITH

‎"Sometimes in life, doubt covers the view of our perspective no matter how hard we try to stay positive on our fence. Strength is the force that comes from above that moves us to go on! All because we have faith " ~Leah C. Dancel

"When you're down deep in the pit - remember what others have been through and yet they pull themselves out from that darkness. All because they hold on to their faith!" ~Leah C. Dancel

Juvilla Jugan Mcgowran Quotes


"A whisper brings life to a dying hope." Juvilla J. Mcgowran, FB, 10 June 2012

"attention seekers are SELFISH PEOPLE...yes, they need our attention, they are understood, they are loved but this makes them abusive, manipulative...they still demand for more that "Your happiness depends upon your very own thoughts. No one else can think your thoughts for you. Deliberately think thoughts of what you want because they're the thoughts that make you happy." ~Rhonda Byrne is left for others, for us....attention seekers can choked us, it can drained us..the more attention we give, the more they want from us......attention seekers have no contentment....giving more attention to them is toxic to both the giver and the recepient of it.....these people need more of GOD not from/of people.........." ~Juvilla Mcgowran (FB, December 2014)

"Distance is never a hindrance of true friendship. Friends are already written in the heart of a true friend." ~Juvilla J. Mcgowran, FB, 22 April 2012

"Keep sailing no matter how rough is the ocean...til you reach the seashore of hope." ~Mcgowran Juvilla

"Many people here are hungry/thirsty of publicity for this is (FB) their refuge. Thry thought of it as their refuge." ~Juvilla Mcgowran (December 2014)

"May GOD continuously bless us with life on earth and will be walking in the LIGHT of HIM." ~Juvilla J. Mcgowran, FB, 27 February 2012

"Tears cleanse your eyes and thus make them beautifully glowing." ~Juvilla J. Mcgowran, FB, 23 April 2012

"There are lots of struggles as we journey in this world. Let us not stop. The finer we become and upon reaching the end of the channel, GOD sees the finest creation HE ever made." ~Juvilla Mcgowran (October 21, 2914)

"We sometimes fail to recognise our scars and wounds because we travel in this world in different routes, different directions. But, we have one thing in common, pain, when we reach the crossing of the four highways, channels or the intersection..." ~Juvilla Mcgowran August 2014

"Wrinkles are signs of one's greatness in life." ~Juvilla J. Mcgowran

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3/26/12

Marlene Dietrich Quotes


"It is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed by someone wiser than oneself." ~Marlene Dietrich

"It is the friends you can call up at 4am that matter." ~Marlene Dietrich

"The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman - any woman - with beautiful legs." ~Marlene Dietrich 



Sara Hendersdon - time

"The generosity of your time is the most valauble gift you can give." ~Sara Henderson

Kenneth Slessor - poetic dangle of hung men

The red globes of light, the liquour-green,
The pulsing arrows and the running fire
Spilt on  the stones, go deeper than a stream;
You find this ugly, I find this lovely.

Ghosts' trousers, like the dangle of hung men,
In pawnshop-windows, bumping knee by knee,
But none inside to suffer or condemn;
You find this ugly, I find this lovely.
~Kenneth Slessor, William Street, 1939

Faith Bandler - sky folds into the sea

Sky mirrors over the sea in Bohol
November 2011

"The blueness of the sky folded into the sea and it was never ending. It was always like this. Everything was eternal. The moon came and went and came again. The sun came everyday. When the dark thick clouds which brought the rain covered the sun, there was no need to think about them, even to notice them, because the sun would come again." ~Faith Bandler, Wacvie (1977)

James A Michener - mankind

"Mankind was destined to live on the edge of perpetual disaster. We are mankind because we survive. We
do it in a half-assed way, but we do it." ~James A Michener, Chesapeake, 1978

Lin Yutang Quotes


"Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a noble art of leaving things undone." ~Lin Yutang

"No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” ~Lin Yutang

"Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother." ~Lin Yutang

"The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials." ~Lin Yutang

"When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means the sun is about to set." ~Lyn Yutang

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Rob Williams Quotes

"A happy or successful person is not someone who is living in a certain set of circumstances, but rather someone who is living with a certain set of attitudes." ~Rob Williams

"Finding peace and happiness doesn't depend on getting rid of all conflicts and problems in life. . . rather, finding peace and happiness depends on learning how to deal with those problems and conflicts and knowing how to rise above them to enjoy the good things." ~Rob Williams

Jeremy Taylor Quotes


“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone.” ~Jeremy Taylor on Wealth

"Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous." ~Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667), British churchman, devotional writer.

"Love is friendship set on fire." ~Jeremy Taylor

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3/25/12

Thought for Today - Generosity

"You are a soul who does not wait for happy endings, but creates them with the power of a generous heart." ~Thought for Today-UK

Dr. Michael W. Fox -stewardship of nature

"Human liberation will begin when we understand that our evolution and fulfillment are contingent on the recognition of animal rights and on a compassionate and responsible stewardship of nature." ~Dr. Michael W. Fox, Animal Activist

Byrd Baggett - windshield

“Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror” ~Byrd Baggett

Maria Ray - moment

"We have only this moment sparkling like a star in our hand, and melting like a snowflake." ~Maria Ray

Thought for Today - Missing Out

"You can only be in one place at any moment in time. If you feel you are missing out on something then you are. But it's not the party, or being with another person that you're missing, it's your own life. As long as you are thinking of where you could be, you are marking yourself absent from where you are now. Which means you are nowhere. Many people spend their entire life in 'nowhere'. Not a wise choice!" ~Thought for Today-UK

John Gay Quotes

"Excuse me, then! you know my heart; But dearest friends, alas! must part." ~John Gay

"If the heart of a man is depressed with cares, the mist is dispelled when a woman appears." ~John Gay

Miss Piggy - eating habit

"Never eat more than you can lift." ~Miss Piggy

BOB DYLAN Quotes


"A poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet." ~Bob Dylan 

"All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.” ~Bob Dylan on Equality

"Everybody has their own idea of what's a poet. Robert Frost, President Johnson, T. S. Eliot, Rudolf Valentino   - they're all poets.  I like to thing of myself as the one who carries the light bulb." ~Bob Dylan 

"I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours." ~Bob Dylan

“Let me drink from the waters where the mountain streams flow
Let the smell of wildflowers flow free through my blood
Let me sleep in your meadows with the green grassy leaves.”  
~Bob Dylan

"Not once have I ever had the time to ask myself: Are my songs literature? So, I do thank the Swedish Academy, both for taking the time to consider that question, and for providing such a wonderful answer." ~Bob Dylan's' Nobel Acceptance speech.

"Stay free from petty jealousies
Live by no man's code
And hold your judgement for yourself
Lest you wind up on this road."
~Bob Dylan

"Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them." ~Bob Dylan

"There’s beauty in the silver singing river, There’s beauty in the sunrise in the sky, But none of these and nothing else can match the beauty, That I remember in my true love’s eyes." ~Bob Dylan

“Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.” ~Bob Dylan

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Emily Bronte Quotes


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"Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree." ~Emily Bronte

"He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” ~Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

"She was a wild, wicked slip of a girl. She burned too bright for this world." ~Emily Bronte

"Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies." ~Emily Bronte (1818-1848)

"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." ~Emily Bronte

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Akiane Kramarik - Peaceful place



Kiama East Beach
December 1, 2018

“Everybody needs time to reflect and contemplate, and the most inspirational and peaceful place to do so is nature.” ~Akiane Kramarik

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Joanne Madeline Moore Quotes

"A pinch of patience will get you through." ~Joanne Madeline Moore

"Be astute in your appraisal with people and situations." ~Joanne Madeline Moore

"Be patient and wait for an opportune time." ~Joanne Madeline Moore

"Bite the bullet and look for love." ~Joanne Madeline Moore

"Bring beauty, creativity and harmony into your domestic environment." ~Joanne Madeline Moore

"Careless slips and thoughtless quips will land you in trouble so think carefully before you speak." ~Joanne Madeline Moore

"Communicate clearly, else there'll be problems and misunderstanding." ~Joanne Madeline Moore

"Compromise with others and find win-win solutions to mutual problems." ~Joanne Madeline Moore

"Focus on smart saving rather than frivolous spending." ~Joanne Madeline Moore

"Learn how to delegate." ~Joanne Madeline Moore

"Others are happy to help - all you have to do is ask." ~Joanne Madeline Moore

"Pay close attention to your dreams." ~Joanne Madeline Moore

"Prioritise, state what you can do and can't do - and don't be afraid to say no." ~Joanne Madeline Moore

"Slow down and read the fine line carefully first." ~Joanne Madeline Moore

"Stimulate your brain cells through reading, researching, listening and observing." ~Joanne Madeline Moore

"Take time to reflect on your future - and your past." ~Joanne Madeline Moore

"The harder you work, the better the results be." ~Joanne Madeline Moore

"When confused about an emotional issue, sleep on it and let a fresh perspective emerge." ~Joanne Madeline Moore

"When you're feeling generous, don't promise more than you can realistically deliver." ~Joanne Madeline Moore

HENRY FORD Quotes

"Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't - you are right." ~Henry Ford

"History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today." ~Henry Ford


"An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous." ~Henry Ford

"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him had better take a closer look at the American Indian." ~Henry Ford

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young." ~Henry Ford

"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success." ~Henry Ford

"Don't find fault, find a remedy." ~Henry Ford

"Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement."~Henry Ford

"Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently." ~Henry Ford

“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” ~Henry Ford

"If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get to the other person's point of view and see things from his angle as well as your own." ~Henry Ford

"It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages." ~Henry Ford

"Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward." ~Henry Ford

"Money doesn't change men. It merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish, or arrogant, or greedy, the money brings it out; that's all." ~Henry Ford

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." ~Henry Ford

"There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do." ~Henry Ford

"Thinking is the hardest work there is, that's why so few people engage in it." ~Henry Ford

"Those who believe they can do something and those who believe they can't are both right." ~Henry Ford

"Wealth is nothing more or less than a tool to do things with." ~Henry Ford

"Whatever you think you can or think you can't, you are right." ~Henry Ford

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it." ~Henry Ford

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Thomas J. Peters Quotes


"Celebrate what you want to see more of!." ~Thomas J. Peters

"If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade." ~Thomas J. Peters

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Thought for Today - Noticing Goodness

"Even if I don't mean to be critical, I often unconsciously home in on others' weaknesses and mistakes, The more I develop the habit of noticing goodness and only holding onto the good in others and situations, the more my own sense of well-being will rise. When I continually think: "He/she is wrong", I create a barrier that prevents me from reaching my own goodness." ~Thought for Today-UK

Nicola Conville - chuckle

"A good old chuckle not only makes you feel better; it has proven health benefits. A week's worth of giggles may be just what's needed." ~Nicola Conville

Sonia Kruger - glow

"To get the glow on the outside, the best place to start is within." ~Sonia Kruger

Jim Elliot Quotes


"God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with Him." ~Jim Elliot

"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." ~Jim Elliot

"The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will be the ultimate word from God." ~Jim Elliot

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Thought for Today - Unity Blossoms

"Unity is harmony within and amongst people. It is built with a shared vision for the good of all and a common goal. Unity is appreciating the value of each person and their unique contribution. When there is willingness to accommodate others, unity blossoms." ~Thought for Today-UK

Leah C. Dancel - nature

"Nature is God's garden as "the earth is His footstool." It's a resting place at His leisure, where man finds pleasure watching His beauteous creations contained therein." ~Leah C. Dancel

David Soriano - universe

"The function of a civilization is to realize that the universe was made for more questions than answers." ~David Soriano

3/18/12

Chogyam Trungpa Quotes

"Generosity is self-existing openness, complete openness. You are no longer subject to cultivating your own scheme or project. And the best way to open yourself up is to make friends with yourself and with others." ~Chogyam Trungpa

"Hope and fear cannot alter the seasons." ~Chogyam Trungpa

"The epitome of the human realm is to be stuck in a huge traffic jam of discursive thought." ~Chogyam Trungpa

"When we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music." ~Chogyam Trungpa

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Henry Dancel - faith

"The magic of thinking big can transform your life, but you also need faith that you can succeed and adopt a positive attitude and positive action." ~Henry Dancel

3/17/12

Marilynne Robinson - generosity

“Generosity is also an act of freedom, a casting off of the constraints of prudence and self-interest.” ~Marilynne Robinson

Oie Osterkamp - world

“The world is a much more beautiful and incredible place than you think, and each of us has a great deal of power to make it more so.” ~Oie Osterkamp

Alexander Woollcott - kind of day

"There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day." ~Alexander Woollcott, American Author

Karen Ravn - dream

“Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be.” ~Karen Ravn

R. Shelley - ride

"Against my hesitations and fear, it makes more sense to ride into the teeth of life's challenges than to run from them." ~R. Shelley

George Crabbe - fish

“A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook.” ~George Crabbe

Louis Adamic Quotes


"My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn." ~Louis Adamic

“There is a certain blend of courage, integrity, character and principle which has no satisfactory dictionary name but has been called different things at different times in different countries. Our American name for it is 'guts.'” ~Louis Adamic

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Virginia Woolf Quotes


"Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.” ~Virginia Woolf

"As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world." ~Virginia Woolf

"But what is more to the point is my belief that the habit of writing thus for my own eye only is good practice. It loosens the ligaments." ~Virginia Woolf

"But when we sit together, close, we melt into each other with phrases. We are edged with mist. We make an unsubstantial territory." ~Virginia Woolf

"Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?" ~Virginia WoolF

"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman." ~Virginia Woolf

“For pleasure has no relish unless we share it.” ~Virginia Woolf

“He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.” ~Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"How many times have people used a pen or a paintbrush because they couldn't pull
the trigger?" ~Virginia Woolf 

"Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue." ~Virginia Woolf

"I am overwhelmed with things I ought to have written about and never found the proper words." ~Virginia Woolf

"I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past." ~Virginia Woolf

"I desired always to stretch the night and fill it fuller and fuller with dreams." ~Virginia Woolf, The Waves

"I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life." ~Virginia Woolf

"I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose." ~Virginia Woolf

"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman." ~Virginia Woolf

"It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done." ~Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)

"It is our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top." ~Virginia Woolf

"Lighthouses are endlessly suggestive signifiers of both human isolation and our ultimate connectedness to each other." ~Virginia Woolf

"Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence." ~Virginia Woolf

"Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice." ~Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)

"My mind works in idleness.  To do nothing is often my most profitable way."~Virginia Woolf

“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.” ~Virginia Woolf

"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well." ~Virginia Woolf

"Read a thousand books and your words will flow like a river." ~Virginia Woolf

"Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends." ~Virginia Woolf

"Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading." ~Virginia Woolf 

"The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages." ~Virginia Woolf

"The world is crammed with delightful things" ~Virginia Woolf

"These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism." ~Virginia Woolf

"To walk alone in London is the greatest rest" ~Virginia Woolf

"Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time." ~Virginia Woolf 

"Women have served all these centuries as looking -glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size." ~Virgin Woolf 

"You cannot find peace by avoiding life." ~Virginia Woolf from BrainyQuite

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Samuel Goldwyn Quotes


"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on." ~Samuel Goldwyn

"I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. Everyone has bad breaks, but everyone also has opportunities. People who can smile at their breaks and grab their chances get on." ~Samuel Goldwyn

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3/14/12

David Starr Jordan Quotes


"Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for." ~David Jordan

"The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going." ~David Starr Jordan (1851 – 1931)

"Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it." ~David Starr Jordan

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Arthur Ashe Quotes



"Start where you are, use what you have, do what you can."~Arthur Ashe

"Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome." ~Arthur Ashe

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John Bulwer - feeling alone

"It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves." ~John Bulwer

Emil M. Cioran Quotes


"Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?" ~Emil Cioran

“Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.” ~Emil Cioran

"Our first intuitions are the true ones." ~Emile M. Cioran

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Thought for Today - Getting Up Early

"Develop the habit of getting up early and sitting in silence. Read a peaceful thought and reflect on it. Write down some ideas about this thought. Return to silence, allowing these ideas to take root inside you. Share your ideas with a person close to you. This practice will help you accept and cope with conflicts and difficult situations. It will help you stay happy and peaceful for the rest of the day." ~Thought for Today-UK

Dr. Mehmet Oz Quotes


"If there's something on your wish list for life, make plans today to do it." ~Dr. Oz

"The body is an excellent communicator." ~Dr. Mehmet Oz

"There's more to being beautiful than what you see in the mirror. It's also about what's going on in your body, how you feel and even how you think." ~Dr. Mehmet Oz

"To achieve your goals, make the right thing to do the easy thing to do." ~Dr. Mehmet Oz

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MENCIUS Quotes


"A great man is he who has not lost the heart of a child. -Mencius

"‪Friendship is one mind in two bodies." ~Mencius

"Great is the human who has not lost his childlike heart." ~Mencius

"Human nature is disposed to do good, just as water flows downward. There is no man that does not show this tendency to goodness." ~Mencius

‪"Let those who labor with their heads rule those who labor with their hands.” ~Mencius, Chinese Philosopher‬

"Love elderly people as your parents, love children as your own." ~Mencius

"Sincerity is the way of Heaven." ~Mencius

BIO

Mencius (fourth century BCE) was a Confucian philosopher. Often referred to as the "Second Sage" of Confucianism (meaning second in importance only to Confucius himself), Mencius is best known for his claim that “human nature is good.” ~October 16, 2004

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TRUTH QUOTES


"A humble person will always see the truth in simple lessons. Gratefully accept these simple moments, smile and take what they learn into everyday life." ~Angel whispers...wisdom

"A lie can travel around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes." ~Mark Twain

"A moment of truth is very powerful. Instead of smiling to be polite, just frown. Instead of laughing when you are nervous or uncomfortable, just speak your truth. Instead of acting like everything is all right, proclaim it isn't alright, and talk about your feelings! Honor your truth. Honor yourself. Be real." ~Bryant McGill

"Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates." ~Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

"After every end there is a new beginning - that's truth beyond this earthly time." ~Ursula Steinhauser

"All Truth passes thru three stages: First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident." ~Arthur Schopenhaue

“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.” ~Galileo Galilei on Truth

"Facts and truth don't have much to do with each other." ~Calvin Trillin

"I have no boundary to truth. I am closed permanently to lies." ~Liz

"If you want the truth, I'll tell you the truth: Listen to the secret sound, the real sound, which is inside you." ~Kabi

"Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly." ~Christopher Fry

"In the spider web of facts, many a truth is strangled." ~Paul Eldridge

“It's in great joy that we grasp truth.” ~Mark Leyner

"The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices." ~Frederick II, the Great

"The object of the superior man is truth." ~Confucius

"The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself." ~Anais Nin

“Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truth is a pathless land, and happiness is a journey without distance." ~Robert Holden

"Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

"Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away." ~Elvis Presley

"Truth is often drowned in rhetoric." ~B. Zawadzki

"Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it." ~Phyllis Bottome

"We know the truth, not only by the reason, but by the heart." ~Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), French mathematician and philosopher

"Written truth is four-dimensional. If we consult it at the wrong time, or read it at the wrong pace, it is as empty and shapeless as a dress on a hook." ~Robert Grudin

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Sr. Mary Rose McGeady - joy

"There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life." ~Sr. Mary Rose McGeady

3/13/12

Lytton Strachey Quotes

"Discretion is not the better part of biography." ~Lytton Strachey

"Perhaps of all the creations of man, language is the most astonishing." ~Lytton Strachey

SUSAN CAIN Quotes



"In our culture, snails are not considered valiant animals -- we are constantly exhorting people to "come out of their shells" -- but there's a lot to be said for taking your home with you wherever you go." ~Susan Cain

"Introverts may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in their pajamas. They prefer to devote their social energies to close friends, colleagues, and family. They listen more than they talk, think before they speak, and often feel as if they express themselves better in writing than in conversation. They tend to dislike conflict. Many have a horror of small talk, but enjoy deep discussions." ~Susan Cain, author,  Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking 

Luigi Pirandello - dream

“In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.” ~Luigi Pirandello

Sourav Ghosh - moment to live

“If you have enough time to waste, try giving it to someone who have moments to live.” ~Sourav Ghosh

EDWARD YOUNG Quotes


"All may do what has by man been done." ~Edward Young

"How blessings brighten as they take their flight." ~Edward Young

"No man e'er found a happy life by chance,
Or yawned it into being with a wish.
An art it is, and must be learnt; and learnt
With unremitting effort, or be lost." 
~Edward Young (1683-1765)

"Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote." ~Edward Young

"We nothing know, but what is marvellous; Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe." ~Edward Young on Wonders

"Who does the best his circumstance allows does well, acts nobly; angels could do no more." ~Edward Young

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Dick Cavett - intellectual

"To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is." ~Dick Cavett


Jim - perceptions

"True communication isn't possible. Humans have their own perceptions of reality where they feel they connect with others. It's only the lack of real communication that prevents those personal realities from turning to utter loneliness and despair brought about by the understanding that none of us can ever truly know another." ~Jim

Harold Rheingold - communication

"People who use computers to communicate, form friendships that sometimes form the basis of communities, but you have to be careful to not mistake the tool for the task and think that just writing words on a screen is the same thing as real community." ~Harold Rheingold

Thought for Today - Humility

"Humility grows a little more each time I step away from my own feelings and opinions and genuinely listen to the experience of another human being. Humility is dedication to the extent that no acknowledgement is sought for the self. Only when I have learned to value others no more or less than I value myself can I be said to be truly humble."

"Humility is the sign of greatness. To the extent that you are great, you are accordingly humble because you are constantly full. Just as a fully-laden tree would be bowing down, so, humility does service, and those who remain humble receive respect from everyone. No one gives respect to those who have arrogance; they run away from such a person. Wherever those who are humble go and whatever they do, they will always give happiness. Everyone will experience happiness from them." ~Thought for Today-UK

"Humility puts a hand out to nothing extra, but simply takes what's there. Whether that be food or clothing or understanding. Sometimes there is a lot available and sometimes only a little. It doesn't matter. Even when you understand nothing, there is no worry, for in humility there is the trust that if a person feels themselves to be a child of God, everything will come anyway at the right time." ~Thought for Today-UK

I. A. Richards - language

"Language is an instrument for the pursuit and control of meanings." ~I. A. Richards

R. K. Bergethon - wisdom

“It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.” ~R. K. Bergethon

Annette Funicello - Life


“Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful ." ~Annette Funicello

Miles Davis Quotes

"Do not fear mistakes. There are none." ~Miles Davis

"Don't play what's there, play what's not there." ~Miles Davis

Michael Burke - instincts

"Good instincts tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out." ~Michael Burke

Charles de Lint Quotes


"Don't forget—no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell." ~Charles de Lint

"Everybody's got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it's the choices we make that define who we really are." ~Charles de Lint

"I do believe in an everyday sort of magic - the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like; the eerie appropriateness of moments synchronicity, the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we're alone." ~Charles de Lint

"I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile." ~Charles de Lint

"Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning." ~Charles de Lint

"Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors." ~Charles de Lint

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3/12/12

Nishi De Silva - precious life

“Emptiness is the only thing one will understand in one's precious era of life, which depends upon his level of mentality...If he finds out it in his last moment of his life still he is luckier than who will never be able to understand it in the whole life!" ~Nishi De Silva

Edward F. Halifax - merit

 5 October 2009
Waikatu River
Taupo, New Zealand

"True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes." ~Edward F. Halifax

Max Muller Quotes

11 October 2009
Taupo New Zealand

"A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love." ~Max Muller

Red Rose
September 24, 2021

"The spring of love becomes hidden and soon filled up." ~Max Muller

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WENDELL BERRY Quotes


"And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our feet, and learn to be at home." ~Wendell Berry

“Eating is an agricultural act." ~Wendell Berry

“I see that life is always emerging beyond expectations, absolutely worth having, worth saving. We are alive within mystery, by miracle.” ~Wendel Berry

"It may be when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey." ~Wendell Berry

Hacking River
Audley Village 
Royal National Park
January 15, 2021

“Make a place to sit down.  Sit down. Be quiet.  You must depend upon
affection, reading, knowledge, skill…” ~Wendell Berry 

"Our children no longer learn how to read the great Book of Nature from their own direct experience or how to interact creatively with the seasonal transformations of the planet. They seldom learn where their water comes from or where it goes. We no longer coordinate our human celebration with the great liturgy of the heavens." ~Wendell Berry

"The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope." ~ Wendell Berry

"The Earth is what we all have in common." ~Wendell Berry

"The world is whole beyond human knowing." ~Wendell Berry

"True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One’s inner voices become audible… In consequence, one responds more clearly to other lives." ~Wendell Berry

“We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist.” ~Wendell Berry


"When we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey." ~Wendell Berry

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Samuel Beckett Quotes



“Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.” ~Samuel Beckett 

“The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.” ~Samuel Beckett

“The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.” ~Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

"We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals." ~Samuel Beckett

 "What goes by the name of love is banishment, with now and then a postcard from the homeland,  such is my considered opinion, this evening." ~Samuel Beckett

"Words are all we have." ~Samuel Beckett

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URSULA K. LE GUIN Quotes


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5 October 2009
Taupo, New Zealand

"First sentences are doors to worlds." ~Ursula K. LeGuin

Other Quotes:

“All you have is what you are, and what you give.” ~Ursula K. Le Guin

"... but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply?" ~Ursula K. Le Guin

“If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home." ~Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed 


"Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made like bread; remade all the time, made new." ~Ursula K. Le Guin

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.” ~Ursula K. Le Guin

"The creative adult is the child who has survived." ~Ursula Le Guin

"The only thing that makes life possible is a permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next." ~Ursula K. Le Guin, Fiction writer, novelist 

“Who knows doesn’t talk. Who talks doesn’t know.” ~Ursula Kroeber Le Guin

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Quotes on WRITERS and WRITING


"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Baby Selima at one year and 9 months old. January 2012

"Writing a book is a "poor trade for the spirits" ~Julia, (The Tower Rooms by Mary Grant Bruce

"Writing a first draft is an act of discovery where you need to learn to mine your imagination. You can refine what comes out later." ~TWS

"Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way." ~E.L. Doctorow

"Writing a novel or screen play is an adventure and an act of discovery. You can't control the process. Your stories take you to places you never realised you needed to go. And often what you didn't know at the start turns out to be the best parts of your story." ~The Writer's Studio

"Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul." ~Anne Lamott

"Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day. For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed." ~Ernest Hemingway, Nobel laureate speech

"Writing is a confidence game. There is no failure just a big field to wander in." ~The Writer's Studio

"Writing is a mood changing activity. Most likely you will rarely feel like writing. The key thing is to just sit down and do the work regardless of how you feel. When you finish you will be so glad you did. The act of writing has its own reward." ~TWS

"Writing is a mood changing activity. The act of writing nourishes your spirit." ~TWS

"[Writing is] being able to take something whole and fiercely alive that exists inside you in some unknowable combination of thought, feeling, physicality, and spirit, and to then store it like a genie in tense, tiny black symbols on a calm white page." ~Mary Gaitskill

"Writing is a struggle against silence." ~Carlos Fuentes

"Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go." ~E. L. Doctorow

“Writing is like everything else: the more you do it the better you get. Don’t try to be perfect as you go along, just get to the end of the damn thing. Accept imperfections. Get it finished and then you can go back. If you try and polish every sentence there’s a chance you’ll never get past the first chapter.” ~Iain Banks

“Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.” ~Molière

"Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.” ~Nadine Gordimer

"Writing is medicine. It is an appropriate antidote to injury. It is an appropriate companion for any difficult change." ~Julia Cameron

“Writing is not just an ability to write. There is more to it. Thinking and reasoning are just two seeds that would nourish letters and words to become fruits of inspiration and change! Let the seeds grow!” ~Rado Gatchalian

"Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards." ~Robert Heinlein

"Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators." ~Olin Milleron Writing

"Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money." ~Jules Renard

“Writing is the painting of the voice; the closer the resemblance, the better it is” ~Voltaire

"Writing is the supreme solace." ~William Somerset Maugham

"Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery." ~Henry Miller

"Writing or making anything—a poem, a bird feeder, a chocolate cake—has self-respect in it. You're working. You're trying. You're not lying down on the ground, having given up." ~Sharon Olds

"Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers." ~Isaac Asimov


OTHERS:

"A bad novel awakens senses, a good novel the conscience." ~Anon

"A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage." ~Robert McNamara

"A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit" ~Richard Bach

"A serious writer is not to be confused with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or evwen a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl." ~Ernest Hemingway

"A writer's notebook is the perfect place to keep your inspiration, ideas, notes and references to anything else you need for your next project!" ~Hannah, Between The Line Editorial on WHY EVERY WRITER NEEDS A WRITER'S NOTEBOOK via PINTEREST

"A writer's notebook or inspiration journal is a great way to inspire yourself through quotes, writing prompts, poems, pictures, or really anything else you find interesting." ~from Owlcation dot com on HOW TO START A WRITER'S NOTEBOOK via PINTEREST

"A writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, or because everything she does is golden. A writer is a writer because, even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway." ~Junot Diaz, Professor of Writing, Winner of Pulitzer Prize For Fiction

“A writer ought not to be an opinion-machine… The job of the writer is to make us see the world as it is, full of many different claims and parts and experiences.” ~Susan Sontag

"A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper." ~E. B. White

"All you have to do is write one tue sentence." ~Ernest Hemingway

"An arena where honest opinion is mixed freely with a lightly used editor's pen and freedom of expression is the rule of day." ~St.Alberts's Place on the Web

"Arranging an official dinner in an embassy is a little like writing a script for a play. The prolog is the guest list, often the most difficult part of the whole creative operation." ~Letitia Baldrige

"As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake." ~Aimee Bender

"As a writer you try to listen what others aren't saying ... and write about the silence." ~N. R. Hart  

"At night I read and write, and things I have never understood become clear; I reap the harvest of the rest of the year's planting." ~Annie Dillard

"Authenticity is the only style worth having. " ~The Writer's Studio

"But what is more to the point is my belief that the habit of writing thus for my own eye only is good practice. It loosens the ligaments." ~Virginia Woolf

"Discretion is not the better part of biography." ~Lytton Strachey

"Don't forget—no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell." ~Charles de Lint

"Editing is everything.  Cut until you can't cut anymore. " ~Esther Freud 

"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing." ~Benjamin Franklin

"Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will." ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Every great personal story you have to tell involves overcoming adversity. If you shy away from adversity, you take away your ability to tell new stories." ~Farrel Droke

"Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works." ~Virginia Woolf

"Everyone has a reason for their beliefs. Every single person on this earth has a story, and sadly, some people don't think their story matters through being bullied into silence. Everybody's story matters in this world. We just have to adapt and listen without judgment. That's how we all learn from one another, and I believe is the reason we are all put here. To learn and love one another despite our differences.‪" ~Alison Amethyst Dalziel, August 14, 2018, FB comment ‬

"Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite." ~Edward Albee

"Finding your writer's brain is half of it. Finding your writer's heart is all of it." ~Karen Draper

"First sentences are doors to worlds." ~Ursula K. Le Guin

 “How do you know, you ask, where to take your words? That’s another difference between the writing I do for others and for myself. In the first case, I know exactly where to go, and I just need to get there as quickly and smoothly as possible. In the second, I let the words lead me; I begin stories not knowing where they’ll go and how they’ll end. That’s the adventure, the fun, and the grace of creative writing.”
~ Jose Dalisay
Excerpt from essay “The Best Revenge,” (1.5.04) p.135
“The Knowing is in the Writing”

“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.” ~Anne Frank

"I have never had a dry spell in my life, mainly because I feed myself well, to the point of bursting. I wake early and hear my morning voices leaping around in my head like jumping beans. I get out of bed quickly, to trap them before they escape." ~Ray Bradbury

"I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living." ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good." ~Seneca

"I think of a writer as a river: you reflect what passes before you." ~Natalia Ginzburg

"‪I try to wake up earlier every day just to imagine a beautiful story and get a word in before the world turns on its light upon me. Before the cars start their engines. Before the chaos pokes its head out and interfere with my rhythm. then I ask myself, "do I really need to write about the serene skies before they all wake up? Or should I just write about the naked truth that keeps all of us up till we finally fall asleep around 3 am?" I never know the answer cause that is when I am finally sound asleep! ... Of course I am joking. I never sleep. but I am in a writing mode and felt like writing this piece." ~Mary Tavakoli, on Time at 3am‬

"I would hurls words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all, to keep alive in our hearts a sense of the inexpressibly human." ~Richard Wright

"I’d love a new start, to make new memories and forget the bad ones. I want to travel, see new places, different scene, different music, touching hearts. I want to meet new people, who will show me what it is to love and be loved in return. I want to leave it all behind, to erase my book, back to the very cover, and re-write my story." ~Anon

"I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk." ~H. L. Mencken

"If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own." ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day. The consistency, the monotony, the certainty, all vagaries and passions are covered by this daily occurrence. You don't go to a well once but daily. You don't skip a child's breakfast or forget to wake up in the morning. Sleep comes to you each day, and so does the muse… ’I know I have a novel in me,’ I often hear people say, ’But how can I get it out?’ The answer, always, is every day.” ~Walter Mosely

"If you want your life to be a magnificent story, then begin by realizing that you are the author and everyday you have the opportunity to write a new…" ~Mark Houlahan

"If you wish to be a writer, write." ~Epictetus

"In every man's writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded." ~Thomas Carlyle

"In order to write about life first you must live it.” ~Ernest Hemingway

“Insecure writers follow the rules. Rebellious writers break the rules. An artist masters the form.” ~Robert McKee

“It's a question of what you might do in your wildest imagination, not what you might do because you are bound by the strictures of polite behaviour. We don't want our writing to be bound by that. We'd like our stories to be greatly expressive of our fantasy life.” ~David Mamet

"It's not a bad idea to get the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone with them." ~Isabel Colegate

"It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone and can be made as offensive as a brickbat." ~Oscar Wilde

“Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.” ~Christina Baldwin

"Journaling is like whispering to one's self and listening at the same time." ~Mina Murray

"Keep in mind that the only person to write for is yourself.Tell the story you most desperately want to read." ~Susan Isaacs

"Life is bearable when you have someone to write, and someone who writes you back." ~Eunjin Jang

"Look, then, into thine heart, and write!" ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Many have an irresistible itch for writing." ~Anon on Proverbs

"Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon." ~H. L. Mencken

"Nature is a writer's best friend." ~Agavé Powers

"No matter how long you've been at it, you always start from scratch." ~Jeffrey Eugenides

"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader." ~Robert Frost

"Once, lovers on faraway shores sat by candlelight and dipped ink to parchment, writing words that could not be erased. They took an evening to compose their thoughts, maybe the next evening as well." ~Mitch Albom

"One can rise early in the morning and have time to write (or, even, to take a walk and then write) before the world's work schedule begins. Also...one can live simply and honorably on just about enough money to keep a chicken alive. And do so cheerfully." ~Mary Oliver

“One must be pitiless about this matter of mood. In a sense writing will create the mood. Generally I've found this to be true. I have forced myself to begin writing when I've been utterly exhausted, when I've felt my soul as thin as a playing card, when nothing has seemed worth enduring for another five minutes... and somehow the activity of writing changes everything.” ~Joyce Carol Oates from TWS

“One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.” ~Alfred Kazin

"Our inks can unite people; there is power in its every stroke, I strongly believe!" ~Helen Sarita, FPB, June 2021

"Part of being a writer is being a strong, avid reader." ~Ann Eckhart

"People on the outside think there's something magical about writing, that you go up into the attic at midnight and cast the bones and come down in the morning with a story, but it isn't like that. You sit on back of the typewriter and you work, and that's all there is to,it." ~Harlan Ellison

"Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man." ~Sir Francis Bacon

“Serious writers write, inspired or not. Over time they discover that routine is a better friend than inspiration.” ~Ralph Keyes from TWS

"Sometimes, writing is all that we have. Sometimes, the best poems are written for the wrong ones. Sometimes, our poems are the only thing that remained right for them." ~Mica Meñez, A Cup of Words and Coffee

“Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing. They are the ones who discover what is most important and strangest and most pleasurable in themselves, and keep believing in the value of their work, despite the difficulties.” ~Bonnie Friedman

"Tears are words that need to be written." ~Paulo Coelho

"The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power." ~Toni Morrison

"The act of writing itself is like an act of love. There is contact. There is exchange too. We no longer know whether the words come out of the ink onto the page, or whether they emerge from the page itself where they were sleeping, the ink merely giving them colour." ~Georges Rodenbach, The Bells of Bruges

"The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair." ~Mary Heaton Vorse 

"The first draft is just telling yourself a story." ~Terry Prachett, Freedom With Writing

"The only end of writing is to enable the reader better to enjoy life, or better to endure it." ~Samuel Johnson

"The only happy author in this world is he who is below the care of reputation." ~Washington Irving

"The only way to write a gret book is o write it through the eyes of a child who sees things for the first time." ~Arnold Bennett, novelist, (TFBFG 1987/cah)

"The pen can either build or destroy a nation that is why as responsible poets and citizens, we choose to unite our breathren rather than add to the chaos and confusion that's causing us to become divided. It takes spiritual maturity for one to be able to purge out the corrupted self with all its selfishness, vainglory, spitefulness and pride." ~Don M. Luman-ag,  FPB,  June 2021

"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say." ~Anaïs Nin

"The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words." ~William H. Gass

"The writer's job is to tell the truth." ~Ernest Hemingway

"There are many different kinds of writers, I like to use the analogy of architects and gardeners. [There are some writers who are architects, and they plan everything, they blueprint everything, and they know before the drive the first nail into the first board what the house is going to look like and where all the closets are going to be, where the plumbing is going to run, and everything is figured out on the blueprints before they actually begin any work whatsoever. And then there are gardeners who dig a little hole and drop a seed in and water it with their blood and see what comes up, and sort of shape it. They sort of know what seed they've planted — whether it's an oak or an elm, or a horror story or a science fiction story, but they don't how big it's going to be, or what shape it's going to take.]I am much more a gardener than an architect." ~George Raymond Richard Martin

"There is nothing to writing. All you have to do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed." ~Ernest Hemingway

"There must be millions of people all over the world who never get any love letters... I could be their leader." ~Charlie Brown

"They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription." ~Samuel Butler

“To write clearly and creatively we need to trust our own voice. Like any other art, creative writing is a function of the whole person. The unconscious must flow freely and richly, bringing at demand all the treasures of memory, all the emotions, incidents, scenes, intimation of character and relationships, which it has stored away in its depths. The unconscious is shy, elusive and unwieldy, but it is possible to tap it at will, and even direct it.” ~Dorothea Brande

"To write well is to think well, to feel well, and to render well; it is to possess at once an intellect, soul, and taste." ~George Louis Buffon

"We write by the light of every story we have read." ~Richard Peck

"What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic." ~Carl Sagan

"When we write the truth, there isn’t always a grand group applauding. But write it we must.” ~C. S. Lewis

"When writing the story of your life, don't let anyone else hold the pen." ~Anon

"When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism. When you steal from many, it's research." ~Wilson Mizner

"When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools." ~Michael Leboeuf

"Whether you’re keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it’s the same thing. What’s important is that you’re having a relationship with your mind.” ~Natalie Goldberg

"Write your day as you want your story to read. Make this day count more than yesterday." ~John, One Spark Foundation

"Write your hurts in the sand. Carve your Blessings in stone." ~Anon

"Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals." ~John Steinbeck on Clowns

"Writers aren't exactly people. They're a whole bunch of people trying to be one person." ~F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Writers are people who write. Writing has its own reward. If you want to write a novel or script you have to enjoy the process." ~The Writers' Studio

"You have to live your story before being able to write your story." ~Amy Shearn

“You might have the insights of Buddha, but if you can’t tell a story, your ideas will be as dry as dust. Craft is the sum total of all means used to draw the audience into deep involvement, to hold that involvement and ultimately reward it with a moving and meaningful experience.” ~Robert McKee

"You must simply love to write. Then, when there's interest in one of yourn stories, it's a bonus. There's a lot of giving yourself up to it than being so much in command of anything. It's like giving yourself up to something that's going to take you along with it. And that you're going to go wherever it goes. It may work out, it may not, but you're going to go there." ~Romulus Linney

"You should write because you love the shape of the stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page." ~Annie Proulx


YOU KNOW YOU'RE A WRITER WHEN …

… you're prepared to make a fool of yourself as research for a scene in your novel.

… you break up with someone because they don't know the difference between your and you're.

… you catch yourself speaking and behaving like your lead character at work.

… you dig out your pen in the middle of a shopping expedition and scribble away on a notepad.

… you have a baby name websites saved on your computer. (thatgirlinthebatmanshirt/tumblr)

… you've gone so far to see as how your characters would respond to their natural environments, like subjecting yourself to the freezing cold. (tumblr)

… you've honed the skill of procrastination. (tumblr)

… you know how many times J.K. Rowling, John Grisham, and Louis L'Amour were rejected.

… you know you've been editing too long when the word edit looks like it needs to be edited. (@BookEmDonna)

… you look back on things you've written before and can't help cringing or laughing. (agonizayn-payne/tumblr)

… you make up quotes in your head that will be famous after you become a best-selling author.

… you narrate the day's events in your head, describing yourself in third person.

… you sit at your desk writing and suddenly pull an expression just to make sure you've described it correctly. (devanshade/tumblr )

… you wake up in the morning and you've written an entire novel in your dreams.

… you watch horror movies for ideas, even when you know you'll have nightmares after you do it.

… you write titles for novels with your alphabet soup.

… your handbag contents always include a notebook, a pen, and a book to read.

… your password for anything is the title of your favourite book or an author's name.

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