"Pursue passion, not
approval." –Jeff Goins
“If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get
written at all. It might be better to ask yourself ‘Why?’ afterwards than
before. Anyway, the force from somewhere in Space which commands you to write
in the first place, gives you no choice. You take up the pen when you are told,
and write what is commanded. There is no agony like bearing an untold story
inside you.”
- Zora Neale
Hurston (1891–1960), African-American novelist, short story writer, folklorist,
playwright and anthropologist. Dust Tracks on a Road, ch. 8, J.P. Lippincott
(1942).
“In life we do things, some we wish
we had never done. Some we wish we could replay a million times in our heads.
But they all makes us who we are and in the end they shape every detail about
us. If we were to reverse any of them, we wouldn't be the person we are. Just
live, makes mistakes, have wonderful memories, but never ever second guess who
you are, where you have been and most importantly where you are going.
~Lessons Learned In Life”
~Lessons Learned In Life”
— with Arona Marie, on Facebook
“Take care of all your memories, for you cannot relive
them.” –Bob Dylan
"Failing to plan, is like planning to fail."
"When you plan your day, you're on your way."
“I learned to have courage to try new things- you’ve got
nothing to lose.”- Ella Macpherson
“I made a deal with a company that they didn’t have to pay
me until the end of the year and I would get a percentage of the sales. They took a risk and I took a risk. That year I made about $60,000
Australian. Courage is doing things that
you believe in and sometimes the results come later. That investment that I made at a young age
has sustained me for 20 years.” - Ella Macpherson
"Life is about discovering and
living a series of increasingly more meaningful and empowering
stories" - Donald Epstein
"The secret of my success is never waiting for anyone
to join me." –Post Secret
“Every child, every person needs to know that they are a
source of joy; every child, every person needs to be celebrated.” –Jean Vanier
“A community is like an orchestra: each instrument is
beautiful when it plays alone, but when they all play together, each given its
own weight in turn, the result is even more beautiful.” –Jean Vanier
“Not everything that counts can be counted, and not
everything that can be counted counts.” -William Bruce Cameron
“Being realistic is the most common path to mediocrity.” –Will Smith
“Actually I just woke up one day and decided I didn’t want to feel like that anymore, or ever again. So I changed. Just like that.” Eva Chavez
“15 Things You Should Give Up to Be Happy”
1. Give up your need to always be right.
2. Give up your need for control.
3. Give up on blame.
4. Give up your self-defeating self-talk
5. Give up your limiting beliefs
6. Give up complaining
7. Give up the luxury of criticism
8. Give up your need to impress others
9. Give up your resistance to change
10. Give up labels
11. Give up on your fears
12. Give up your excuses
13. Give up the past –Purposefairy.com
14. Give up attachment
15. Give up living your life to other people’s expectations
"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those
who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and
relearn."- Alvin Toffler
“If you want more from life, you have to demand more from
yourself". -Self help Daily blog
“What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere
between a physical reality and a metaphysical one…. It’s this in-between that
I’m calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and
the intangible one—which is really the realm of the artist.” — Federico Fellini
“Do more than belong:
participate.
Do more than care: help.
Do more than believe: practice.
Do more than be fair: be kind.
Do more than forgive: forget.
Do more than dream: work.”
—William Arthur Ward
(1921-1994)
Do more than care: help.
Do more than believe: practice.
Do more than be fair: be kind.
Do more than forgive: forget.
Do more than dream: work.”
—William Arthur Ward
(1921-1994)
"Without justice, courage is
weak." -Benjamin Franklin
"Justice denied anywhere
diminishes justice everywhere."- Martin
Luther King, Jr.
“There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a
typewriter and open a vein.”- Red Smith
"If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything." -Confucius
"Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go." -E. L. Doctorow
"Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else."- Gloria Steinem
"Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death - fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant." -Edna Ferber
"You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else." -Grace Paley
"Connect readers with writers." -Small Press Distribution
"What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure." -Samuel Johnson
"For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can." -Ernest Hemingway
"I wanted to change the world - but I found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself." -English novelist Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
"After all, most writing is done away from the typewriter, away from the desk. I'd say it occurs in the quiet, silent moments, while you're walking or shaving or playing a game, or whatever, or even talking to someone you're not vitally interested in." -Henry Miller
"Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!" -Edna Ferber
"Writing is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public." -Winston Churchill
“When you stop doing what you’re not interested in doing,
you’ll realize that you giving more than others were really asking.”- Paulo
Coelho
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