Tell about the quality of light coming in through your window. Jump in and write. Don’t worry if it is night and your curtains are closed or you would rather write about the light up north–just write. Go for ten minutes, fifteen, a half hour.
When you find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, who will stand in front of you when other’s cast stones, or will stay awake just to watch you sleep, who wants to...
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Shannon L. Alder
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
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Aristotle
To assess the quality of thoughts of people, don't listen to their words, but watch their actions.
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Amit Kalantri
Be a worthy worker and work will come.
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Amit Kalantri
Because you’re a creation of God, you reflect the Divine qualities of creativity, wisdom, and love.
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Doreen Virtue
More Quotes By Natalie Goldberg
The things that make you a functional citizen in society - manners, discretion, cordiality - don't necessarily make you a good writer. Writing needs raw truth, wants your suffering and darkness on the table, revels in a cutting mind that takes no prisoners...
Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.
We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded. This is how writers must think, this is how we must sit down with pen in hand. We were here; we are human beings; this is how...
No matter what a person does to cover up and conceal themselves, when we write and lose control, I can spot a person from Alabama, Florida, South Carolina a mile away even if they make no exact reference to location. Their words are lush like...
Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.
