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Life offers more than one chance, Cathy, you know that. ↗

— V.C. Andrews

#life

A novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the passenger next to him on an airplane. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#life

We are all born with genius. It's like our fairy godmother. But what happens in life is that we stop listening to our inner voices, and we no longer have access to this extraordinary ability to create poetry. ↗

— Milton Glaser

#life

I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself as a poet and to accept the fact that life had never given me any choice in the matter. And then I had to discover exactly what that meant. ↗

— Aberjhani

#contemporary-literature #contemporary-poetry #destiny #famous-poets #initiation

Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. . . At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day. . . Discipline yourself to attain it, but accept that which comes to you with deep trust. . . ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#inspiration #life #questions #inspirational

War does not answer war, war does not finish war. The only ending is peace. ↗

— Philippa Gregory

#peace #war #life

Life...as God intended it enables us to live above the drag of fear, superstition, shame, pessimism, guilt, anxiety, worry, and all the negativity that keeps people from seizing each day as a gift from Him. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#fear #god #worry #life

Mostly I sit at home in the evenings watching the box and hoping that one day I'll evolve into plankton. ↗

— Tom Holt

#office #tired #work #life

Say not always what you know, but always know what you say. ↗

— Claudius

#know #say #you

Good film, television, or music keeps you awake, anxious for the next movement or act, and wanting more when it is finished. ↗

— John Grooters

#music #television #wanting #music