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Showing posts with label quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quotes. Show all posts
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Inspire Me Sunday
Find life experiences and swallow them whole. Travel. Meet many people. Go down some dead ends and explore dark alleys. Try everything. Exhaust yourself in the glorious pursuit of life.
Anonymous
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Are you pursuing life?
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Tell me how.
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Inspire Me Sunday
LIVE your dream
show COMPASSION
CREATE your own happiness
follow your HEART
ENJOY the little things
LAUGH out loud
be your BEST self
CHERISH every moment
DREAM big
EMBRACE every possibility
DISCOVER your passion
BELIEVE in miracles
CREATE peace
make a WISH
be SPONTANEOUS
REMEMBER to breathe
SING in the rain
fall in LOVE
TODAY is the day
anonymous, from a wall hanging I got last week. it hangs prominently in my dining room
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Inspire Me Sunday
Truth and a Right Choice
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"There comes a time in the spiritual journey when you start making choices from a very different place. And if a choice lines up so that it supports truth, health, happiness, wisdom and love, it’s the right choice."
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"There comes a time in the spiritual journey when you start making choices from a very different place. And if a choice lines up so that it supports truth, health, happiness, wisdom and love, it’s the right choice."
- Angeles Arrien, anthropologist
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This quote, so well said, could have been whispered from my own heart.
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Can you relate to its sentiment?
Can you relate to its sentiment?
Thursday, April 7, 2011
RQ #19
It is a good thing for an educated man to read books of quotations.
I got so tired of hearing those proverbs when I was a child. Now I use them all the time. Sometimes they are the best way to say what needs to be said. I teach them to my students. I have a collection of [quotes] for class discussion and writing assignments.
I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things.
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If you were to be quoted in the future, what would your statement be?
Winston Churchill
`I got so tired of hearing those proverbs when I was a child. Now I use them all the time. Sometimes they are the best way to say what needs to be said. I teach them to my students. I have a collection of [quotes] for class discussion and writing assignments.
Marva Collins
`I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things.
Dorothy Parker
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If you were to be quoted in the future, what would your statement be?
Saturday, October 16, 2010
In the Aftermath
How 'bout a meme that's making the rounds?
1. If you could have any superpower, what would you have? Why?
The ability to communicate with angels. There are some important ones I'd want to keep up with.
2. Who is your style icon?
My friend Marie, in personal appearance and home decorating. She seems just ahead of the curve most of the time, and she's brilliant with both.
Writing-wise, Elizabeth Berg is the author whose (women's fiction) work I remember first identifying with so strongly (it was her novel THE PULL OF THE MOON).
3. What is your favorite quote?
Oh, this is tough, I've been collecting so many. I think I'll share this now:
When you understand yourself, you open yourself to a better understanding of others.
That's my own observation, and I think it's an important one. It is the crux of self-discovery.
4. What is the best compliment you’ve ever received?
That someone has been thankful or proud I'm their friend. Can I share another thought here?
I went out to find a friend and could not find one there. I went out to be a friend, and friends were everywhere. (MLL)
5. What playlist/CD is in your CD player/iPod right now?
I'm sure I'd find Adam Lambert's debut CD in my car's player. I love the song called Aftermath, which has a strong message about being true to yourself, being strong, even if it means going against the grain; that in the end you'll be alright despite having done so. The line I like most is this:
Tell a stranger they're beautiful, so all you feel is love, love...
6. Are you a night owl or a morning person?
I'm awake early for the sake of my kids, but am most productive mid-morning. Like to go to bed by 9 or so of an evening.
7. Do you prefer dogs or cats?
Dogs. It's always been dogs. Nothing against cats, though.
8. What is the meaning behind your blog name?
Back when I first started writing seriously, I wanted to have a name to associate my self-employed freelance work with. My mind kept playing aroung with the phrase murder, she wrote (from the Angela Lansbury show), and I thought, it needs to be something she wrote. But what's the something? Wait, that is it! Something She Wrote. And it carried over to my blog nicely, I thought.
How would you answer these questions?
If you missed the video I posted earlier this week, please check it out. It's so worth watching.
1. If you could have any superpower, what would you have? Why?
The ability to communicate with angels. There are some important ones I'd want to keep up with.
2. Who is your style icon?
My friend Marie, in personal appearance and home decorating. She seems just ahead of the curve most of the time, and she's brilliant with both.
Writing-wise, Elizabeth Berg is the author whose (women's fiction) work I remember first identifying with so strongly (it was her novel THE PULL OF THE MOON).
3. What is your favorite quote?
Oh, this is tough, I've been collecting so many. I think I'll share this now:
When you understand yourself, you open yourself to a better understanding of others.
That's my own observation, and I think it's an important one. It is the crux of self-discovery.
4. What is the best compliment you’ve ever received?
That someone has been thankful or proud I'm their friend. Can I share another thought here?
I went out to find a friend and could not find one there. I went out to be a friend, and friends were everywhere. (MLL)
5. What playlist/CD is in your CD player/iPod right now?
I'm sure I'd find Adam Lambert's debut CD in my car's player. I love the song called Aftermath, which has a strong message about being true to yourself, being strong, even if it means going against the grain; that in the end you'll be alright despite having done so. The line I like most is this:
Tell a stranger they're beautiful, so all you feel is love, love...
6. Are you a night owl or a morning person?
I'm awake early for the sake of my kids, but am most productive mid-morning. Like to go to bed by 9 or so of an evening.
7. Do you prefer dogs or cats?
Dogs. It's always been dogs. Nothing against cats, though.
8. What is the meaning behind your blog name?
Back when I first started writing seriously, I wanted to have a name to associate my self-employed freelance work with. My mind kept playing aroung with the phrase murder, she wrote (from the Angela Lansbury show), and I thought, it needs to be something she wrote. But what's the something? Wait, that is it! Something She Wrote. And it carried over to my blog nicely, I thought.
How would you answer these questions?
If you missed the video I posted earlier this week, please check it out. It's so worth watching.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Writerly Quotes
Worth sharing...
"Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader—not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon." E.L. Doctorow
“For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.” Catherine Drinker Bowen
"There's a word for a writer who never gives up... published." Joe Konrath
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." Mark Twain
"Becoming the reader is the essence of becoming a writer." John O'Hara
"Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader—not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon." E.L. Doctorow
“For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.” Catherine Drinker Bowen
"There's a word for a writer who never gives up... published." Joe Konrath
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." Mark Twain
"Becoming the reader is the essence of becoming a writer." John O'Hara
"The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea." Thomas Mann
"If a book is not alive in the writer's mind, it is as dead as year-old horse-sh!t." Stephen King
"Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer." Barbara Kingsolver"Write like you mean it." me
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Got 1000 words out Monday and 1600 yesterday! Hoping to keep at it today, though some necessary errands may put a dip in my numbers. But it's okay - any numbers are good, right?
I've added a word counter widget to my side bar, so you guys can help hold me accountable. If you don't see it climbin', knock some sense into me! Deal?
How's your project coming?
And which quote from above did you like best?
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