Don’t sit down in the middle of the woods. If you’re lost in the plot or blocked, retrace your steps to where you went wrong. Then take the other road. And/or change the person. Change the tense. Change the opening page.
- Margaret Atwood
The Guardian, Feb 2010
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“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
- Zen Proverb
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“We all need some time to ourselves – just a few minutes a day to get reacquainted with the one who’s been there since the beginning.”
- seen in Starbuck’s, Muswell Hill
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“Let our imagination guide us – and never cease to follow it, for if we do, we grow up and the child inside us is no more.”
- seen in Starbuck’s, Muswell Hill
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Many of life’s failures are people who did not realise how close they were to success when they gave up.
– Thomas Edison
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“Life is brief and art is long.”
- Gustave Flaubert
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“Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift. It must be pursued constantly and responsibly. Freedom is not an ideal located outside of man; nor is it an idea which becomes myth. It is rather the indispensable condition for the quest for human completion.”
- Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
(thanks to Georgina for drawing my attention to it)
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“Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.”
– Meulana Rumi (thanks to Elaine for the suggestion!)
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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
- Maya Angelou
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If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.
For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.
- Mother Teresa
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