All Quotes By Tag: Inspiration

“When Suzie introduced Helen, she told the audience that one of the best things about books is that they are an interactive art form: that while the author may describe in some detail how a character looks, it is the reader’s imagination that completes the image, making it his or her own. “That’s why we so often don’t like movies made from books, right?” Suzie said. “We don’t like someone else’s interpretation of what we see so clearly.” She talked, too, about how books educate and inspire, and how they soothe the soul-“like comfort food without the calories,” she said. She talked about the tactile joys of reading, the feel of a page beneath one’s fingers; the elegance of typeface on a page. She talked about how people complain that they don’t have time to read, and reminded them that if they gave up half an hour of television a day in favor of reading, they could finish twenty-five books a year. “Books don’t take time away from us,” she said. “They give it back. In this age of abstraction, of multitasking, of speed for speed’s sake, they reintroduce us to the elegance-and the relief!-of real, tick-tock time.”

“Your husband may not be a wealth of pregnancy information, but he is a wealth of ‘you’ information. He probably knows you better than anyone else in this world (which means he understands your current neediness pretty well). He also probably loves you more than anyone else in this world. So, while he may not be the person to turn to if you need to know how to soothe breast tenderness, he’s the perfect person to turn to when you need a hand to hold.”

“Rise early and seize each day, learn much and use this knowledge well, spend time with those you love, never abuse your pets, use logic to fight the irrational (for it is everywhere), defend the environment and its wildlife as a knight would protect King Arthur, meld mind and heart for greatest creativity, follow your dreams, and become all that you can be.”

“Everyone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes our mediocrity more bearable.”

“I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.”

“To recognize that the greatest error is not to have tried and failed, but that in trying, we did not give it our best effort”

“File under “Hard Truths”: the creative muse is fiction. If you sit around waiting for the right moment to create, you will die waiting.”

“Suffering usually relates to wanting things to be different from the way they are.”

“Once you have met someone, you never really forget them.”

“What should scare you is not knowing what you don’t know. Always be eager to learn for knowledge is power.”

“To soar, we must leave anything that weighs us down…”

“Your words are powerful so what you say goes a long way to either establish or destroy you; this is why you should say things that God has said concerning you, not things that situations or circumstances say.”

“Stop worrying about someone taking your spot. God already have it reserved. Do the work to get there and fill it!”

“God is never tired of bringing the sun out every morning, taking it in the evenings and bringing out the moon.”

“Dare to be different. Represent your maker well and you will forever abide in the beautiful embrace of his loving arms.”