04/30/15

Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up. -Jane Yolen

04/29/15

I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams. -H.P. Lovecraft

04/28/15

Pain isn’t a lot of fun, at least not for most folks, but it is utterly unique to life. Pain — physical, emotional, and otherwise — is the shadow cast by everything you want out of life, the alternative to the result you were hoping for, and the inevitable creator of strength. From the pain of our failures we learn to be better, stronger, greater than what we were before. Pain is there to tell us when we’ve done something badly—it’s a teacher, a guide, one that is always there to both warn us of our limitations and challenge us to overcome them.

For something no one likes, pain does us a whole hell of a lot of good. -Jim Butcher

04/27/15

If you travel too fast, all you're gonna see is a blur and you'll never really meet anyone interesting. -Fábio Moon

04/24/15

The world is a looking glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. -William Makepeace Thackeray

04/23/15

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. -Helen Keller

04/22/15

What is to give light must endure burning. -Viktor E. Frankl

04/21/15

The plan may be useless, but the planning process is invaluable. -Dwight D. Eisenhower

04/20/15

Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count. -Albert Einstein

04/17/15

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. -Franz Kafka

04/16/15

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these. -George Washington Carver

04/15/15

A positive attitude will not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. -Herm Albright

04/14/15

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. –Stephen Covey

04/13/15

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us. -Albert Schweitzer

04/10/15

All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why. -James Thurber

04/09/15

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbors, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all. -Voltaire

04/08/15

One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time. -Carl Sagan

04/07/15

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. -Alice Walker

04/06/15

It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there. -William Carlos Williams

04/03/15

Laughter is the closest distance between two people. -Victor Borge

04/02/15

Don't be kind of bold.  Be bold. -William Zinsser

04/01/15

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. - Abraham Lincoln