#tin

If my life were still a movie, this is the part that would end up on the cutting room floor. We were all just fill-ins for a long-running soap opera. The actors changed, but the story seldom did. Certainly not the action. ↗

— Charles Martin

#actors #bad-choices #bad-scenes #life-story #movie

Planting trees, I myself thought for a long time, was a feel-good thing, a nice but feeble response to our litany of modern-day environmental problems. In the last few years, though, as I have read many dozens of articles and books and interviewed scientists here and abroad, my thinking on the issue has changed. Planting trees may be the single most important ecotechnology that we have to put the broken pieces of our planet back together. ↗

— Jim Robbins

#the-future #trees #change

People don't buy what you do; they buy why you do it. And what you do simply proves what you believe ↗

— Simon Sinek

#marketing #inspirational

Oh, never and forever aren't for mortals, love. But we won't be parted till I know it's right that we part. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#mythology #parting #inspirational

All you have to do is put one word after another, and remember how great it feels to be a writer. ↗

— Stephanie Lennox

#inspiration #writer #writers-on-writing #writing #inspirational

First and foremost, I am me. I'm real. I don't write to impress. I write to express. ↗

— RaeBeth McGee-Buda

#writing #inspirational

Shut up and write. ↗

— K.A. Laity

#writing #inspirational

Cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#writing #inspirational

I realized that the good stories were affecting the organs of my body in various ways, and the really good ones were stimulating more than one organ. An effective story grabs your gut, tightens your throat, makes your heart race and your lungs pump, brings tears to your eyes or an explosion of laughter to your lips. ↗

— Christopher Vogler

#inspiration #laughter #senses #story #writing

Listen, Legs, I'm going to die anyway. I'm human. And I don't know about you, but I don't believe in visions of the future. I believe we choose our own destiny. You didn't give me a choice last time. You just left. But I'm here now. And I love you. Stay with me. Don't fear the future; we'll face it together. ↗

— Melissa de la Cruz

#blue-bloods #destiny #future #lost-in-time #love