Inspire Me Sunday

Follow your heart, but take your brain with you.

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Inspire Me Sunday

It has been said that we need just three things in life: Something to do, something to look forward to, and someone to love.

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Do you agree? Would you trade out one thing for another?

Inspire Me Sunday

The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.

Indian proverb

Inspire Me Sunday

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

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Inspire Me Sunday

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These days I'm living and breathing quotes and inspirational thoughts, soaking up wisdom and encouragement. It's been my routine to post the ones that touch me most here on this blog.

Today it's your turn to share a passage, a scripture, or a lyric. Something that moves you.

Inspire me.

Inspire Me Sunday

God dwells within you, as you.

Hindu belief, as shared

by Elizabeth Gilbert in EAT, PRAY, LOVE

Inspire Me Sunday

The spiritual life is not just an interesting religious idea, or a hoped-for berth in heaven. The spiritual life has earthly dimension--it is life that you can taste, and smell, and touch, and see, and hear. It is reality.

Leonard Sweet, PhD

Inspire Me Sunday

The road ahead lies within.

Anonymous

Inspire Me Sunday

All you have to do is desire it, and if you desire it enough and understand why--really know--it will come...

Alice Sebold, THE LOVELY BONES

Nuggets

I am at the library. I sit on a tall retro stool at a tall stainless-steel table. My notebooks are open, laptop fired up and ready to serve...

Read about my experience at the library, over on the Rose & Thorn Journal blog.

Next, the warm and wise Ana Gonçalves shares how each moment is an opportunity at Pursuing Life, the new blog I recently started with my dear friend and best cohort. Please go read Ana's insightful words, and say hello.

Also, to leave you with a resounding quote:

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Have a wonderful weekend!

To Write It

"My partner listened quietly, as he always does when I tell him all the details of the things I've seen. He knows I have a need to tell stories. But whenever I say them out loud, there is something missing for me. To really tell a story, I need to write it. It's then that I understand what it is that I'm really trying to say. I find the deeper meaning--and the deeper satisfaction.

The same is true of many others..."

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Elizabeth Berg, a preface to encouragement

in Escaping Into the Open:

the Art of Writing True

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I am one of those others.

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It's why I write. And why I dream of sharing my writing with others, aim for publication, so that I may understand myself, and thus be truly understood by you.

You Won't Regret It

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Og Mandino

Perfect Presents

Did you ever open a gift that, if it could vocalize, would scream your name?

Sometimes there's something you didn't even know existed, you'd never seen anything like, but the second you open it, you know it was meant to be yours.



My sister gave me this box for Christmas. It's heavy with a beautiful bronze finish, felted interior (ideal for stashing, oh, I don't know... chocolate?), a pile of pens on top, and is engraved with the quote THE WRITER MUST WRITE WHAT HE HAS TO SAY, NOT SPEAK IT. - Ernest Hemingway

I'm still speechless. And it looks perfect at its place of honor in my writing space.


What did you receive that couldn't have been more perfect?

Quote to Consider

The line between failure and success is so fine. . . that we are often on the line and do not know it.

Elbert Hubbard

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Is there truth in this for you?

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Which direction from the line are you most often poised to step?

Which Would You Rather?

Imagination is more important than knowledge...

- Albert Einstein

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So, imagination? Or knowledge?