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  • #1
    Stefan Zweig
    “Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore.”
    Stefan Zweig, The Post-Office Girl

  • #2
    “Why not go out on a limb? Isn’t that where the fruit is?”
    Frank Scully

  • #3
    Karen Blixen
    “You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.”
    Isak Dinesen, Out of Africa

  • #4
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

  • #5
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #6
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #7
    Booker T. Washington
    “I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.”
    Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery: An Autobiography

  • #8
    Paramahansa Yogananda
    “Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself......”
    Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

  • #10
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #11
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #12
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

  • #14
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #15
    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    Elbert Hubbard

  • #16
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #17
    Ansel Adams
    “There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.”
    Ansel Adams

  • #18
    Flannery O'Connor
    “All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.”
    Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

  • #19
    Flannery O'Connor
    “Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing.”
    Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

  • #20
    Flannery O'Connor
    “Conviction without experience makes for harshness. ”
    Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

  • #21
    Flannery O'Connor
    “Not-writing is a good deal worse than writing.”
    Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

  • #22
    Flannery O'Connor
    “I have enough energy to write with and as that is all I have any business doing anyhow, I can with one eye squinted take it all as a blessing.”
    Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

  • #23
    Flannery O'Connor
    “I suppose half of writing is overcoming the revulsion you feel when you sit down to it.”
    Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

  • #24
    Flannery O'Connor
    “I have one of those food-chopper brains that nothing comes out of the way it went in.”
    Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

  • #25
    Dorothy Parker
    “I hate writing, I love having written.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #26
    Flannery O'Connor
    “I write to discover what I know.”
    Flannery O'Connor

  • #27
    Flannery O'Connor
    “Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.”
    Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

  • #28
    Flannery O'Connor
    “Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system.”
    Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

  • #29
    Flannery O'Connor
    “Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.”
    Flannery O'Connor

  • #30
    Flannery O'Connor
    “The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.”
    Flannery O'Connor

  • #31
    Flannery O'Connor
    “A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is.”
    Flannery O'Connor

  • #32
    Flannery O'Connor
    “The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience.”
    Flannery O'Connor



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