Mike Virata

“Be hard on yourself and easy on others. Carry your own cross but never lay one on the back of another.”
― A.W. Tozer, Man: The Dwelling Place of God

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

“What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.”
― Seneca, Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium: Latin Text

“Too many writers write for the wrong reasons.
They want to get famous or they want to get rich or they want to get laid by the girls with bluebells in their hair...
When everything works best, it's not because you chose writing, but because writing chose you. It's when you're mad with it. When it's stuffed in your ears, nostrils, under your finger nails.
It's when there's no hope but that.”
― Charles Bukowski