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  • #1
    Renata Adler
    “I think when you are truly stuck, when you have stood still in the same spot for too long, you throw a grenade in exactly the spot you were standing in, and jump, and pray. It is the momentum of last resort.”
    Renata Adler, Speedboat

  • #2
    Terri Windling
    “Some years ago, I read an article about two people in the arts (alas, I can’t remember who they were) who’d been married for many, many years. Asked for the secret of their long partnership, they said: “We fell straight into conversation when we met, and we haven’t come to the end of that conversation yet.”

    I can’t think of a better model for marriage than that. Or of a narrative more romantic . . . .”
    Terri Windling

  • #3
    Anaïs Nin
    “You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too. No, I think there was too rigid a pattern. You came out of an education and are supposed to know your vocation. Your vocation is fixed, and maybe ten years later you find you are not a teacher anymore or you're not a painter anymore. It may happen. It has happened. I mean Gauguin decided at a certain point he wasn't a banker anymore; he was a painter. And so he walked away from banking. I think we have a right to change course. But society is the one that keeps demanding that we fit in and not disturb things. They would like you to fit in right away so that things work now.”
    Anaïs Nin

  • #4
    Sarah Ban Breathnach
    “The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers
    But above all
    The world needs dreamers who do.”
    Sarah Ban Breathnach

  • #5
    “Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it...”
    Wilferd Peterson

  • #6
    “If I want to know my light side, my best self, all I have to do is look in the outer world and look for who I love, who turns me on, who excites me and distinguish the qualities I am seeing in them, and in doing that I will find the best expression of myself.

    Debbie Ford”
    Janet, Bray Attwood, The Passion Test: The Effortless Path to Discovering Your Destiny

  • #7
    Tucker Max
    “Ladies, let me give you some advice. You can throw all your stupid fucking chick-lit, self-help, why-doesn't-he-love-me books out, because this is all you need to know: Men will treat you the way you let them. There is no such thing as "deserving" respect; you get what you demand from people.. if you demand respect, he will either respect you or he won't associate with you. It really is that simple.”
    Tucker Max, I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell

  • #8
    Kathy Love
    “The funny thing about destiny is that you can't predict it, and you can't prevent it.
    - Leslie”
    Kathy Love, Getting What You Want

  • #9
    Helen Keller
    “Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.”
    Helen Keller

  • #10
    Nicholas Evans
    “Sometimes what seems like surrender isn't surrender at all. It's about what's going on in our hearts. About seeing clearly the way life is and accepting it and being true to it, whatever the pain, because the pain of not being true to it is far, far greater. ”
    Nicholas Evans

  • #11
    Bob Dylan
    “I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.”
    Bob Dylan

  • #12
    Sloane Crosley
    “Sometimes we don't know what we want until we don't get it.”
    Sloane Crosley

  • #13
    Bob Dylan
    “Let me ask you one question
    Is your money that good
    Will it buy you forgiveness
    Do you think that it could
    I think you will find
    When your death takes its toll
    All the money you made
    Will never buy back your soul”
    Bob Dylan, The Bob Dylan Scrapbook: 1956-1966

  • #14
    Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours.
    “Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours.”
    Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

  • #15
    Libba Bray
    “We're all strangers connected by what we reveal, what we share, what we take away--our stories. I guess that's what I love about books--they are thin strands of humanity that tether us to one another for a small bit of time, that make us feel less alone or even more comfortable with our aloneness, if need be.”
    Libba Bray

  • #16
    Helen Keller
    “Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.”
    Helen Keller

  • #17
    Steve Maraboli
    “At any given point you can release your greatest self. Don’t let anyone hold you back. Don’t let anyone dilute you. Don’t be peer pressured into being less than you are. People willing to dilute themselves for the sake of others is one of the great tragedies of our time. Stop letting others define and set the pace for your life. Get out there and be your best. Do your best. Live your best. Make every day count and you’ll see how exponentially more exciting, thrilling, successful, happy and full your life will be.”
    Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

  • #18
    “Promise Yourself

    To be so strong that nothing
    can disturb your peace of mind.
    To talk health, happiness, and prosperity
    to every person you meet.

    To make all your friends feel
    that there is something in them
    To look at the sunny side of everything
    and make your optimism come true.

    To think only the best, to work only for the best,
    and to expect only the best.
    To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others
    as you are about your own.

    To forget the mistakes of the past
    and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
    To wear a cheerful countenance at all times
    and give every living creature you meet a smile.

    To give so much time to the improvement of yourself
    that you have no time to criticize others.
    To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear,
    and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.

    To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world,
    not in loud words but great deeds.
    To live in faith that the whole world is on your side
    so long as you are true to the best that is in you.”
    Christian D. Larson, Your Forces and How to Use Them

  • #19
    Helen Keller
    “We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world”
    Helen Keller

  • #20
    Piers Anthony
    “I think it's a shame that something as creative and vital to the nature of the human species as story-telling is largely controlled by the soulless cretins known as publishers.”
    Piers Anthony

  • #21
    C. JoyBell C.
    “If I am to be fallen into love, I will. And if as a result I will appear to be stupid, disillusioned, and of poor judgment, I will. And I would be damned if I cared what other people think. For I would rather be thought of as all of these things, than not love. If in loving, I become the naked woman on the horse, I will ride that horse with my head held high. This is my spirit. I am unbreakable.”
    C. JoyBell C.

  • #22
    Richard Bach
    “No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it.”
    Richard Bach
    tags: life

  • #23
    Bob Dylan
    “If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure”
    Bob Dylan

  • #24
    Joan Didion
    “Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.”
    Joan Didion, On Self-Respect

  • #25
    Anaïs Nin
    “Woman’s role in creation should be parallel to her role in life. I don’t mean the good earth. I mean the bad earth too, the demon, the instincts, the storms of nature. Tragedies, conflicts, mysteries are personal. Man fabricated a detachment which became fatal. Woman must not fabricate. She must descend into the real womb and expose its secrets and its labyrinths. She must describe it as the city of Fez, with its Arabian Nights gentleness, tranquility and mystery. She must describe the voracious moods, the desires, the worlds contained in each cell of it. For the womb has dreams. It is not as simple as the good earth. I believe at times that man created art out of fear of exploring woman. I believe woman stuttered about herself out of fear of what she had to say. She covered herself with taboos and veils. Man invented a woman to suit his needs. He disposed of her by identifying her with nature and then paraded his contemptuous domination of nature. But woman is not nature only.
    She is the mermaid with her fish-tail dipped in the unconscious.”
    Anais Nin

  • #26
    Bob Dylan
    “And it dawned on me that I might have to change my inner thought patterns... that I would have to start believing in possibilities that I wouldn't have allowed before, that I had been closing my creativity down to a very narrow, controllable scale... that things had become too familiar and I might have to disorientate myself. p.71”
    Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One

  • #27
    Richard Bach
    “If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.”
    Richard Bach

  • #28
    Alan             Moore
    “Much of magic as I understand it in the Western occult tradition is the search for the Self, with a capital S. This is understood as being the Great Work, as being the gold the alchemists sought, as being the Will, the Soul, the thing we have inside us that is behind the intellect, the body, the dreams. The inner dynamo of us, if you like. Now this is the single most important thing that we can ever attain, the knowledge of our own Self. And yet there are a frightening amount of people who seem to have the urge not just to ignore the Self, but actually seem to have the urge to obliterate themselves. This is horrific, but you can almost understand the desire to simply wipe out that awareness, because it’s too much of a responsibility to actually posses such a thing as a soul, such a precious thing. What if you break it? What if you lose it? Mightn’t it be best to anesthetize it, to deaden it, to destroy it, to not have to live with the pain of struggling towards it and trying to keep it pure? I think that the way that people immerse themselves in alcohol, in drugs, in television, in any of the addictions that our culture throws up, can be seen as a deliberate attempt to destroy any connection between themselves and the responsibility of accepting and owning a higher Self and then having to maintain it.”
    Alan Moore

  • #29
    Bob Dylan
    “There is nothing so stable as change.”
    Bob Dylan

  • #30
    Richard Bach
    “When you have come to the edge of all the light you have
    And step into the darkness of the unknown
    Believe that one of the two will happen to you
    Either you'll find something solid to stand on
    Or you'll be taught how to fly!”
    Richard Bach



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