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“Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.”
― Albert Einstein

“For this cause…for this privilege…you were born—to shine lights into the world for God.”
― Elizabeth George, Moments of Grace for a Woman's Heart

“When there is silence,
Give your voice.
When there is darkness,
Shine your light.
When there is desperation,
Offer hope.”
― Tim Fargo

“In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.”
― Junot Diaz

“If one can, anyone can.
If two can, you can, too!”
― Nancy I. Sanders, Yes! You Can Learn How to Write Children's Books, Get Them Published, and Build a Successful Writing Career

“When you cultivate a godly thought life your soul will shine and you will exhibit the presence of the Lord in you.”
― Elizabeth George, A Woman's High Calling: 10 Essentials for Godly Living

“We shine our brightest when we are plugged into HIM”
― Evinda Lepins

“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Children are capable, of course, of literary belief, when the story-maker's art is good enough to produce it. That state of mind has been called 'willing suspension of disbelief'. But this does not seem to me a good description of what happens. What really happens is that the story-maker proves a successful 'sub-creator'. He makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside it, what he relates is 'true': it accords with the laws of that world. You therefore believe it, while you are, as it were, inside. The moment disbelief arises, the spell is broken; the magic, or rather art, has failed. You are then out in the Primary World again, looking at the little abortive Secondary World from outside. If you are obliged, by kindliness or circumstance, to stay, then disbelief must be suspended (or stifled), otherwise listening and looking would become intolerable. But this suspension of disbelief is a substitute for the genuine thing, a subterfuge we use when condescending to games or make-believe, or when trying (more or less willingly) to find what virtue we can in the work of an art that has for us failed.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays