Some Quotes that I enjoy beginning with my own ~~
When I write I find elbow room for my soul.
~ Jane Penland Hoover ~
From Mary Oliver –
Red Bird “And so everywhere
the beautiful crying forth
of the ideas of God
one of which was you.”
Another from Mary Oliver: “Pay attention, be astonished and tell about it.”
The art of living involves learning how to stay, not run away from what comes to your day. The art of living involves awakening to this moment and the next, embracing and releasing again and again. ~ Jane Penland Hoover ~
AND ALWAYS REMEMBER: Life is not measured by the number of
breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
~ George Carlin ~
Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables.
~Spanish Proverb~
The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That is what poetry does.
~ Allen Ginsberg ~
Only when I make room for the child’s voice within me do I feel genuine and creative.
~ Alice Miller ~
Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader—not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.
~ E.L. Doctorow ~
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
~ George Bernard Shaw ~
We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection… We write to be able to transcend our life, to reach beyond it. We write to teach ourselves to speak with others, to record the journey into the labyrinth. ~ Anais Nin ~
A focused mind is one of the most powerfuL forces in the universe.
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