Dream On, Dreamer

“You don’t need to explain your dreams. They belong to you.”

—	Paulo Coelho

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Paulo Coelho

Adventure

“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.”

—	Edward Abbey

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Edward Abbey

“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.”

—	Andrew Carnegie

Immortal

“If a writer falls in love with you, you can never die.”

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Unknown

"When a man is tired of London he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford."
- Samuel Johnson, 1777

Monotony

“You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book… or you take a trip… and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom: absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this or die like this without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death. Some never awaken.”

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Anaïs Nin

“They looked at each other like a pair of parentheses.”

—	Daniel Handler, Adverbs

Drowning

“When sadness was the sea, you were the one that taught me to swim.”

—	Iain S. Thomas, I Wrote This For You

Wonderstruck

"Always be on the lookout for wonder."  -E.B. White

My Father is the King of Kings

Charm is deceptive, beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised." - Proverbs, 31:30

Disillusions

“It’s a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.”

— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

Wings

“I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable and beautiful and afraid of nothing as though I had wings.” -Mary Oliver

Meant To Be, Supposed To Be

“Sometimes, you have to step outside of the person you've been and remember the person you were meant to be. The person you want to be. The person you are.” -H.G. Wells

Moonbeam

“I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.”

-Mary Anne Radmache

Strength, Courage, Confidence

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence in which you really stop to look fear in the face.. You must do the thing you cannot do." -Eleanor Roosevelt

Fables and Fairy Tales

Once a week, I'm going to start posting a picture and a quote, and hopefully, together, each will be mean more to you. Enjoy!

"Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten." -G.K. Chesterton

Inner Music

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” -Sylvia Plath

‎"What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of the window." -Burton Rascoe

“A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.” -Charles Peguy

“Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake. “-E.L. Doctorow

“There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.” -Walter Wellesley Smith

"There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write." -Mignon McLaughlin

‎"A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order."

"Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand." - George Orwell

"I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head." - John Updike

‎"Books want to be born; I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such." -Samuel Butler

"There are thousands of thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen and writes." -William Makepeace Thackeray

“Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.” – Catherine Drinker Bowen

"If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it." -Anais Nin

"To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music the words make." -Truman Capote

"Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write." -Rainer Maria Rilke

So Many Quotes, So Little Time

Day 5 – your favorite quote

‎''To all you girls that think you're fat because you're not a size 0, you're the beautiful one, it's society who's ugly.'' - Marilyn Monroe

"If you can't see the bright side of life, polish the dull side"

“And then my soul saw you and it kind of went "Oh there you are. I've been looking for you.””

“He's not your prince charming if he doesn't make sure you know that you're his princess.” -Demi Lovato

“I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable, beautiful and afraid of nothing as thought I had wings.” -Mary Oliver

“The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.” –Walter Bagehot

“We do not see things as they are; we see things as we are.” –Anais Win


"We have tomorrow, bright before us, like a flame."- Langston Hughes

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence in which you really stop to look fear in the face... You must do the thing you cannot do." -Eleanor Roosevelt

"The Bible will keep you from sin, but sin will keep you from the Bible."

"Act Swiftly Awesome Pachyderm!" -Horton Hears a Who.

"If we ever forget that we are a Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under." -Ronald Reagan

"When we can overcome the love of power with the power of love, there will be peace." -Jimi Hendrix

"Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten." -G.K. Chesterton