#line

Life is a race, and what matters most isn't when a person crosses the finish line, but how strong they've grown along the way. ↗

— Jen Stephens

#growth #life #race #strength #home

This is the other secret that real artists know and wannabe writers don’t. When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us. The Muse takes note of our dedication. She approves. We have earned favor in her sight. When we sit down and work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#discipline #muse #writing #art

Grandfather recently died. He died alone on a trip away from home in a town where no one expected him to be ↗

— Téa Obreht

#fiction #opening-lines #home

Dim loneliness came imperceivably into the fields and he turned back. The birds piped oddly; some wind was caressing the higher foliage, turning it all one way, the way home. Telegraph poles ahead looked like half-used pencils; the small cross on the steeple glittered with a sharp and shapely permanence. ↗

— A.E. Coppard

#loneliness #home

The devil can get you through your flesh. He knows the button to press on your flesh and have a way into your mind. The flesh becomes a transport medium for evil things if not killed for God. If Christ makes a home in your mind, satan can't get there. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#bishop #christ #devil #evangelism #evil

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. ↗

— Oscar Levant

#erased #fine #fine line #genius #i

That’s why I was calm. When you woke me in the middle of the night with your hand around my throat, and I thought I was going to die for bringing you home—that I had given my life to lie down next to a murderer—that’s why I was calm. Because all I was thinking in that moment was that it was worth it. ↗

— Julio-Alexi Genao

#home

Are you suggesting coconuts migrate? ↗

— Graham Chapman

#silliness #humor

To err is human, to purr is feline. ↗

— Robert Byrne

#err #error #feline #human #humor

I don’t mind hot and spicy. Actually find that appealing in a girl. And chicken wings. ↗

— Julie James

#flirtation #humor #pickup-line #humor