50 quotes for your perusal...

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• Overcome the notion that you must be regular. It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary. -- Uta Hagen
  
  
• There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. -- Leonard Cohen
  
  
• Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances. -- Jackie Chan
  
  
• I am not a teacher but an Awakener. -- Robert Frost
  
  
• Everything you can imagine is real. -- Pablo Picasso
  
  
• As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else. -- Maya Angelou
  
  
• I will become what I deserve.
  
  
• The whole thing is that you're first a person before you're a poet, a writer, an artist. And that's the most important. That human connection ties all your artistic endeavors together in some way. The imaginative world has to be linked to human experience. -- Yusef Komunyakaa, Conversations with Yusef Komunyakaa, edited by Shirley A. James Hanshaw. University Press of Mississippi: 2010.
  
  
• In a gentle way, you can shake the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  
  
• Religion is belief in someone else's experience. Spirituality is having your own experience. -- Deepak Chopra
  
  
• If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people. -- Thich Nhat Hanh
  
  
• Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape. -- bell hooks
  
  
• Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known. -- Chuck Palahniuk
  
  
• I think there should be a rule that everyone in the world should get a standing ovation at least once in their lives. -- R.J. Palacio
  
  
• I like creating beauty out of scary things. -- Grimes
  
  
• Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. -- Robert Frost
  
  
• The complexity of things -- the things within things -- just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple. -- Alice Munro
  
  
• We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. -- Anais Nin
  
  
• Sometimes what you're most afraid of doing is the very thing that will set you free. -- Robert Tew
  
  
• My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way. -- Ernest Hemingway
  
  
• I gave myself permission to feel and experience all of my emotions. In order to do that, I had to stop being afraid to feel. -- Iyanla Vanzant
  
  
• The words get easier the moment you stop fearing them. -- Tahereh Mafi
  
  
• You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too. -- Anais Nin
  
  
• We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection. -- Anais Nin
  
  
• Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensible as poetry. -- Anais Nin
  
  
• To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul. -- Oscar Wilde
  
  
• You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. -- C.S. Lewis
  
  
• Sometimes I'm terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts. -- Edgar Allen Poe
  
  
• And in the end, we were all just humans, drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
  
• If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. -- Carl Sagan
  
  
• We have art in order not to die from the truth. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  
  
• Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense - the creative act. -- Kenneth Rexroth
  
  
• You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get. -- Michael Phelps
  
  
• When you stop doing things for fun, you might as well be dead. -- Ernest Hemingway
  
  
• Nudity is for my boyfriend or my doctor. -- Ginnifer Goodwin
  
  
• Happiness is a habit - cultivate it. -- Elbert Hubbard
  
  
• Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly. -- Marcus Fabius Quintilianus
  
  
• Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon. -- E. L. Doctorow
  
  
• If I fall asleep with a pen in my hand, don't remove it - I might be writing in my dreams. -- Terri Guillemets
  
  
• Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness. -- Desmond Tutu
  
  
• To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist. -- Oscar Wilde
  
  
• Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences. -- Sylvia Plath
  
  
• Memories are what warm you up from the inside. But they're also what tear you apart. -- Haruki Murakami
  
  
• Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say. -- Mitch Albom
  
  
• The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. -- Ferdinand Foch
  
  
• I'm proud of the scars in my soul. They remind me that I have an intense life. -- Paulo Coelho
  
  
• Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters. -- Neil Gaiman
  
  
• To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. -- Lewis B. Smedes
  
  
• She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create powerful spells. -- Dean Koontz
  
  
• I loved her not for the way she danced with my angels but for the way the sound of her name could silence my demons. -- Christopher Poindexter

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