#inspirational

Sometimes we dream of things that we've always wanted--of things that we have been searching for our whole lives without knowing it...and other times we wake up and know what we have to do. I have to write...so I do. ↗

— Cassandra Giovanni

#writer #writing #writing-life #dreams

My pen.’ Funny, I wrote that without noticing. ‘The torch’, ‘the paper’, but ‘my pen’. That shows what writing means to me, I guess. My pen is a pipe from my heart to the paper. It’s about the most important thing I own. ↗

— John Marsden

#funny

Only when you have a conscious working knowledge of these (Universal)laws are you able to be the Deliberate Creator of your own life experience, ↗

— Esther Hicks

#experience

An author cannot of course remain wholly unaffected by his experience, but the ways in which a story-germ uses the soil of experience are extremely complex, and attempts to define the process are at best guesses from evidence that is inadequate and ambiguous. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#tolkien #experience

Love yourself as yourself. Never work to be someone else. Its too hard to keep up. Life is easier when you love you just as you are. ↗

— Janae Marie

#life-and-experience #experience

The author's job is to create a vicarious experience for a complete stranger. ↗

— Lou Jessop

#experience

Kitalah planet yang hidup itu, Sophie! Kitalah kapal besar yang berlayar mengelilingi matahari yang membakar alam raya. Tapi kita masing-masing adalah juga sebuah kapal bermuatan gen-gen yang melayari kehidupan. Jika kita sudah membawa muatan ini dengan selamat ke pelabuhan berikut --berarti hidup kita tidak sia-sia. ↗

— Jostein Gaarder

#dunia-sophie #inspirational #life #philosophy #inspirational

And that wreched creature without hands or feet, who had to be put to bed and fed like a child, that pitiable remnant of a man, whose almost vanished life was nothing more than one scream of pain, cried out in furious indignation: 'What a fool one must be to go and kill oneself!' " - 'Joy of Life ↗

— Émile Zola

#inspirational

Writing is not a great profession as a lot of writers proclaim. I write because this is something I can do. Another thing—very often I think a lot of writers write because they have failed to do other things. How many writers can’t drive? A lot. They’re not practical. They are not capable in everyday life. ↗

— Ha Jin

#inspirational #practicality #inspirational

See people in the light of their potentials, not their problems. ↗

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#life-coaching #light #people #potential #problem