All Quotes By Tag: Inspiration

“What if we lean in to life even with the messes and the mysteries to find the magic in it all?”

“The Gay, the Straight, the Preacher,The privileged, the homeless, the Teacher.They all hearThe speaking of the Tree.They hear the first and last of every TreeSpeak to humankind today. Come to me, here beside the River.Plant yourself beside the River.”

“Be suspicous of justifying comfortable scenarios.”

“This is your one and only life. Your lost lines are waiting. Start where you are. Be open. Be bold. Explore. Face your greatest fears. Wrestle with the deep questions of life. Find and inhabit a story that ignites your soul.Anyone can find and live their lost lines, but not everyone will.”

“Sometimes you have to look at it like this. If that’s the chick he married, no wonder it didn’t work out with you.”

“The real substance is at the bottom of the sea. That’s where the mystery unfolds. The deepest part of your heart is like the deepest part of the ocean, and when someone is brave enough to go there, it’s worth sharing the treasures buried deeply within.”

“Life without GOALS is like flying a plane not knowing where you want to land. The PURPOSE OF LIFE is to know where we want to go and then go there.”

“Life has knocked me down plenty of times. But there’s always a little bit of me that tells me to get back up, to rise, and shine. It reminds me that I don’t belong in the dust. I belong in the stars and that’s where I should be headed.And that little bit of me… that’s the one I love the most!”

“I just liked the idea that there’s still things that we don’t know. At school, it’s the same thing, every day. I liked that it might be all right to believe in large, mad, wild things.”

“When we use persuasion with anyone, even someone we love and respect, we reduce that person to the status of someone who needs to be manipulated.”

“Comfort rarely produces great art.”

“Your personal writing can heal, grow, and transform your life. Give your words permission to change you.”

“I believe by Elizabeth AlexanderPoetry, I tell my students,is idiosyncratic. Poetryis where we are ourselves,(though Sterling Brown said“Every ‘I’ is a dramatic ‘I’”)digging in the clam flatsfor the shell that snaps,emptying the proverbial pocketbook.Poetry is what you findin the dirt in the corner,overhear on the bus, Godin the details, the only wayto get from here to there.Poetry (and now my voice is rising)is not all love, love, love,and I’m sorry the dog died.Poetry (here I hear myself loudest)is the human voice,and are we not of interest to each other?”

“You have to dream big before doing big”

“The creatures may be fake, but the legends are definitely real. They’d fascinated a hundred kids before you, and they’ll fascinate a hundred more after.”