#advice

If you find yourself cutting corners, go in a circle instead ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

#comedy #humor #humour #life #philosophy

People do not get married planning to divorce. Divorce is the result of a lack of preparation for marriage and the failure to learn the skills of working together as teammates in an intimate relationship. ↗

— Gary Chapman

#failure-relationship #marriage #marriage-life #marriage-preparation #relationships-advice

When I am grown up I shall carry a notebook—a fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#writing-life #life

E.L. Doctorow said once said that "Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way." You don't have to see where you're going, you don't have to see your destination or everything you will pass along the way. You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice on writing, or life, I have ever heard. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#life

Raise the bar. Don't duck under it. ↗

— Peter James West

#writing-life #writing-process #life

You can't always be by the people you love you have to let them live their own life. ↗

— Brynlee

#and-life #people #life

Life is about finding . . . what works best for you. ↗

— John-Talmage Mathis

#life #meaning #unemployment #life

Read. You can always talk with another reader. ↗

— Rorke Denver

#life-lessons #reading #life

...some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ... ↗

— John Geddes

#life

Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#comfort #science #sympathy #science