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“It’s up to you to make the conscious choices that bring about a better future. Find new methods to deal with old routines. You have to take charge of your life, to be accountable to yourself and re...”
“Learn to be brave and adventurous because you’ll never discover your place in the world, if you’re too afraid to leave your own backyard.”
“...perhaps in actions I'm less of a man - but, oh the words - such lovely words...”
“I’d want them to know that everyone has their own rules for living and few people actually live by them all. So, although I may not have lived up to all of my rules and expectations in this book, I...”
“There’s no other way but work, work and work. Read widely, live wildly, plumb the depths of yourself, turn yourself inside out until you find your voice”
“The truth to succeeding at leadership is recognizing that it’s a never-ending journey of discovery and learning.”
“The three l’s of being are life, light and love.”
“We’re all ridiculous… all of us. It’s as though we use a lit torch to search for light. You are enough. Know this and proceed through life accordingly.”
“It can’t be epic if there’s no challenge to it.”
“My love for you it sings, It cries My love for you it dreams,It wake’sMy love for you it gives,It takesMy love for you it lives,But never dies.”
“Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will," she says.The sky is like a monochromatic contemporary painting, drawing me in with its illusion of depth, pulling me up. "Yeah, that's true," I say. ...”
“I want to assure you with all earnestness, that no writing is a waste of time, – no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every sentence you write, you...”
“I’ve never felt this lonely.But then I’ve never witnessed someone falling apart. Even his blank stare, as he watches his world crumble around himself, is beautiful. And I’ve never seen someone brea...”
“CharityIn charity lies happiness and bliss,If you haven’t done charity, you may miss,The power to love and share,Charity gives you happiness beyond compare.”
“Life sure gives us serious lessons, but I refuse to sit down and take notes. I can pretty well do that walking!”
“Your labels don’t limit me… they limit your experience of me.”
“The poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his sneses, and the mind is no longer in him.”
“Do you think you’re not ‘ready’ to start that big story idea/project you’ve been thinking about forever?Jump in. Write anyway. The only way to make the impossible a reality is to take a leap of faith.”
“Stop beating yourself up over all the days you didn’t work on your story. Focus on what you can do today.Sit down, and write.”
“If you were waiting for a sign that you’re meant to be a writer…THIS IS IT.”
