#notebook

Don't think there are no second chances. Life always offers you a SECOND CHANCE... It's called TOMORROW ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#life

I want, I want, I want... At this point I'm just a mass of seething wants, but what I want I'm not really sure of. (Like going to the fridge, and opening it, letting all the cold air out...and not knowing what it is you want to eat. You stand with the door open hoping that something will you inspire you.) I'm standing with the door open at the fridge of life, and I want. ↗

— Joanne Horniman

#secret-scribbled-notebooks #inspirational

I carry a notebook with me everywhere. But that's only the first step. ↗

— Rita Dove

#everywhere #first #first step #i #me

But I've got ideas. I keep my little notebook, I've always got that with me. Hopefully there's more stuff than nonsense in there. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#got #hopefully #i #ideas #keep

Tim sends me a fairly ambitious workup in notebook form noting the passages we're going to cover and the chronology of the biblical events, and his commentaries on those things he's read and written. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#chronology #commentaries #cover #events #fairly

I would run into the corner store, the bodega, and just grab a paper bag or buy juice - anything just to get a paper bag. And I'd write the words on the paper bag and stuff these ideas in my pocket until I got back. Then I would transfer them into the notebook. ↗

— Jay-Z

#back #bag #buy #corner #get

I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind’s door at 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were. I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be… ↗

— Joan Didion

#on-keeping-a-notebook #self #love

And that leaves me with the belief that miracles, no matter how inexplicable or unbelievable, are real and can occur without regard to the natural order of things. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#the-notebook #nature

I want all of you, forever, you and me, everyday ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#forever