#age

I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#dream #had #i #since #teenager

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#being #brazil #career #death #encouraged

Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say? ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#claims #diligently #elizabeth #enough #explaining

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power. ↗

— Alan Cohen

#adventurous #change #embrace #exciting #familiar

The gift that has been given to me says much about our capacity for great compassion and generosity, and I hope it sends an inspiring message to others about the importance of organ donation. ↗

— Steven Cojocaru

#been #capacity #compassion #donation #generosity

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#barely #child #himself #into #language

I used to fly around the stage without strings or camera tricks. That took seven years to create. ↗

— David Copperfield

#camera #create #fly #i #seven

It's very different than it use to be. I think everybody has a lot more experience in how to be in a relationship - whether it's a marriage or a significant other or a business or a friend. ↗

— Kathy Valentine

#different #everybody #experience #friend #how

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#contains #future #human #human mind #language

Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service. ↗

— Robert Collier

#always #distant #every #fields #greener