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Thank you Jessica Brody for writing this. Love your immediacy and sense of humour. Borrowed it from the library, transcribed a lot of notes into my notebook, and now I may just have to buy it! A great guide to set the pace of a novel, and the themes ...more "
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Elizabeth Gilbert's, Big Magic is a really nice reminder to tackle the ideas we are presented with. We choose to think about them, and to create something from them. Otherwise your idea may be presented to someone else.An idea can be a small thing, a ...more "
“Love', this English word: like other English words it has tense. 'Loved' or 'will love' or 'have loved'. All these tenses mean Love is time-limited thing. Not infinite. It only exist in particular period of time. In Chinese, love is '爱' (ai). It has no tense. No past and future. Love in Chinese means a being, a situation, a circumstance. Love is existence, holding past and future.”
― A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
― A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.”
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“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
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