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I found this in “A Cup of Comfort for the Writer’s Soul” this evening.

“When you write from the heart, you not only light the dark path of your readers, you light your own way as well.”
- Marjorie Holmes

Good words to live by.

Ok TGP, let’s get you edited.

Original entry as appearing at Ink to Screen.

Don’t work. Avoid telling the truth. Be hated. Love someone.

Found this on Facebook. Thought it was worth sharing with everyone.

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Original entry as appearing at Reach Into Your Soul.

Joanna, who writes about Confident Writing, had this beautiful quote that just hit me over the head with its sheer delight. To live, is to give myself the permission to become the powerful, talented person I am (bolded mine):

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.

We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Something to think about, isn’t it?

Original entry as appearing at Reach Into Your Soul.

From Zhilbar on LJ:

Go here and reload until you get five quotes that sum up your philosophy or outlook, then post them.

An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.
Anatole France (1844 – 1924)

When I’m not doing something that comes deeply from me, I get bored. When I get bored I get distracted and when I get distracted, I become depressed. It’s a natural resistance, and it insures your integrity.
Maria Irene Fornes

Forgiveness is the healing of wounds caused by another. You choose to let go of a past wrong and no longer be hurt by it. Forgiveness is a strong move to make, like turning your shoulders sideways to walk quickly on a crowded sidewalk. It’s your move.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, July 7, 2003

Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it’s cowardice.
George Jackson (1941 – 1971)

I never know how much of what I say is true.
Bette Midler (1945 – )

Edit: Just one more because it’s so appropriate:

I always wanted a happy ending… Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.
Gilda Radner (1946 – 1989)

Original entry as appearing at Broken Shield and Sword.