You are going to have to give and give and give, or there's no reason for you to be writing. You have to give from the deepest part of yourself, and you are going to have to go on giving, and the giving is going to have to be its own reward. There is no cosmic importance to your getting something published, but there is in learning to be a giver. Anne Lamott
You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.
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Amy Carmichael
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
I know what I have given you... I do not know what you have received.
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Antonio Porchia
Always have a willing hand to help someone, you might be the only one that does.
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Roy T. Bennett
Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.
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Marcus Aurelius
More Quotes By Anne Lamott
I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.
Hope is not about proving anything. It's about choosing to believe this one thing, that love is bigger than any grim, bleak shit anyone can throw at us.
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft. I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that...
E.L. Doctorow said once said that 'Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.' You don't have to see where you're going, you don't have...
It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.
