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#1

“I have realized; it is during the times I am far outside my element that I experience myself the most. That I see and feel who I really am, the most! I think that's what a comet is like, you see, a comet is born in the outer realms of the universe! But it's only when it ventures too close to our sun or to other stars that it releases the blazing "tail" behind it and shoots brazen through the heavens! And meteors become sucked into our atmosphere before they burst like firecrackers and realize that they're shooting stars! That's why I enjoy taking myself out of my own element, my own comfort zone, and hurling myself out into the unknown. Because it's during those scary moments, those unsure steps taken, that I am able to see that I'm like a comet hitting a new atmosphere: suddenly I illuminate magnificently and fire dusts begin to fall off of me! I discover a smile I didn't know I had, I uncover a feeling that I didn't know existed in me... I see myself. I'm a shooting star. A meteor shower. But I'm not going to die out. I guess I'm more like a comet then. I'm just going to keep on coming back.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: astronomy, challenges, comets, comfort-zone, courage, extraordinary, growing, illuminate, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, know-thyself, learning, life-and-living, meteor-showers, meteors, outside-my-element, self-awareness, self-discovery, self-growth, self-worth, shooting-stars, the-universe

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#2

“All hatred is self-hatred, just as all healing is self-healing.”
― Eric Micha'el Leventhal

tags: awakening, awareness, compassion, forgiveness, hatred, healing, inspirational, judgment, know-thyself, love, reflection, self, self-and-other, self-love, spiritual, wisdom

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#3

“You invoke a new future
when you envision your past
in the light of your present.”
― Eric Micha'el Leventhal

tags: awakening, awareness, change, creation, destiny, enlightenment, faith, fate, forgiveness, free-will, freedom, future, guilt, healing, hope, imagination, imagine, inspiration, invocation, know-thyself, past-and-future, past-and-present, power, present, present-moment, self-awareness, shame, spiritual, time, transformation, vision

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#4

“Feeling bad is not the problem.
The problem is that we feel bad about feeling bad.

Once you begin to let go of feeling bad about feeling bad,
and start feeling better about feeling bad,
then pretty soon you'll just feel better.

And then you'll feel awesome.”
― Eric Micha'el Leventhal

tags: acceptance, attitude, awakening, awareness, awesome, awesomeness, depression, emotion, forgiveness, growth, guilt, healing, inspirational, joy, judgment, know-thyself, self-awareness, self-growth, self-judgment, shame, transformation, wisdom

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#5

“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts On Common Things

tags: hope, imagination, inspirational

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#6

“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

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#7

“My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.”
― Alan Moore

tags: life

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#8

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

tags: confidence

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#9

“The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

tags: forgiveness, inspirational, letting-go, life, motivational, moving-forward, truth

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#10

“No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.
Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.
This is all practice.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: life

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#11

“And all the books you've read have been read by other people. And all the songs you've loved have been heard by other people. And that girl that's pretty to you is pretty to other people. and that if you looked at these facts when you were happy, you would feel great because you are describing 'unity.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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#12

“It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

tags: happiness

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#13

“I’m not a very good sleeper. But you know what? I’m willing to put in a few extra hours every day to get better. That’s just the kind of hard worker I am.”
― Jarod Kintz, Whenever You're Gone, I'm Here For You

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#14

“The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: alone, art, author, blessed, boredom, company, contemplate, contentment, creativity, curse, good-company, growth, hard-work, imagination, independent, loneliness, perseverance, reflection, self-sufficient, solitude, time, writer

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#15

“I don’t like to celebrate my birthday, because I don’t like taking credit for others’ work—in this case, my mom and dad. Or possibly my mom and the mailman. ”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title

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#16

“If you work hard and study hard. And you fuck up. That's okay. If you fuck up and you fuck up, then you're a fuckup”
― Justin Halpern, Sh*t My Dad Says

tags: determination, fucking-up, hard-work

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#17

“Inspiration is the windfall from hard work and focus. Muses are too unreliable to keep on the payroll.”
― Helen Hanson

tags: focus, hard-work, inspiration, muse

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#18

“I'm really very self-confident when it comes to my work. When I take on a project, I believe in it 100%. I really put my soul into it. I'd die for it. That's how I am.”
― Michael Jackson

tags: hard-work

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#19

“Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy”
― Robert Half

tags: hard-work

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#20

“Be like a duck, paddling and working very hard inside the water, but what everyone sees is a smiling and calm face.”
― Manoj Arora, From the Rat Race to Financial Freedom

tags: calm, duck, face, hard-work, smile, smilin, smiling, work

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#21

“All good work requires self-revelation.”
― Sidney Lumet, Making Movies

tags: creativity, hard-work, quality, realization, self-revelation

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#22

“It’s what you do in your free time that will set you free—or enslave you.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book Title is Invisible

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#23

“Reading—it’s the third best thing to do in bed.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book Title is Invisible

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#24

“I have a secret secret admirer. Not only is her identity a secret—but so is the fact that she admires me. ”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book Title is Invisible

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#25

“There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words--the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers who won't do that. But when you find a book that has both a good story and good words, treasure that book.”
― Stephen King

tags: great-writing, on-writing, stories, storytelling

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#26

“There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.”
― Doris May Lessing, Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949

tags: fiction, on-fiction, storytelling, truth, truth-telling

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#27

“You can fix anything but a blank page.”
― Nora Roberts

tags: on-writing, storytelling, writing

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#28

“Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it."

[Thoughts from Places: The Tour, Nerdfighteria Wiki, January 17, 2012]”
― John Green

tags: alone, creative-process, eye-contact, introverts, profession, story, storytelling, writing

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#29

“The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

tags: storytelling

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#30

“When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.”
― Mary Higgins Clark

tags: on-writing, revenge, storytelling

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