I adore quotes. I thought I would begin to share quotes that I come across that have brought me inspiration, chuckles and comfort. Please do share your favourite quotes, too.
On life…
…in a time lacking in truth and certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in attempting to give back to the world, through her work, a portion of its lost heart. -Louise Bogan
My life has a superb cast but I can’t figure out the plot. -Ashleigh Brilliant
This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it. -Thomas Dekker
They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm. -Dorothy Parker
A No.2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere. -Joyce A. Meyers
The more I wonder…the more I love. -Alice Walker
No is the wildest word. -Emily Dickinson
It’s better to break one’s heart then do nothing with it. -Margaret Kennedy
One kind word can warm three winter months. -Mary Jane Ryan
Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim. -Nora Ephron
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learnt, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity. -Gilda Radner
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. -Willa Cather
Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music – the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. -Henry Miller
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness…. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable. — C.S. Lewis
On writing…
Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come. -Charles de Montesquieu
Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. -E.L. Doctorow
I’m not a very good writer, but I’m an excellent rewriter. -James Michener
Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. -William Wordsworth
The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible. -Vladimir Nabakov
Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. -Nathaniel Hawthorne
Every writer I know has trouble writing. -Joseph Heller
“My life has a superb cast but I can’t figure out the plot.”
I <3 this one!!!
My life has a superb cast too. But I have a pretty good idea of the plot, so I can't agree completely.
Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. -Nathaniel Hawthorne
One of my favorite quotes too!
Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.
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Nora Ephron just gave me these beautifully knitted words that completely describe what I feel