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