Quotes by Australian Authors - Page 63

The idea of the past is as useless as the idea of the future. Both could be invoked by anybody about anything. There is never any more beauty than there is now. There is no more joy or sorrow or wonder than there is now, nor perfection, nor any more evil nor any more good than there is now.
Richard Flanagan
You may not have a clue of what lies ahead, but it’s better to act on life than simply let life act on you.
Nick Vujicic
Two Songs For The World's End I Bombs ripen on the leafless tree under which the children play. And there my darling all alone dances in the spying day. I gave her nerves to feel her pain, I put her mortal beauty on. I taught her love that hate might find, its black work the easier done. I sent her out alone to play; and I must watch, and I must hear, how underneath the leafless tree, the children dance and sing with Fear. II Lighted by the rage of time where the blind and dying weep, in my shadow take your sleep, though wakeful I. Sleep unhearing while I pray - Should the red tent of the sky fall to fold your time away, wake to weep before you die. Die believing all is true that love your maker said to you Still believe that had you lived you would have found love, world, sight, sound, sorrow, beauty - all true. Grieve for death your moment - grieve. The world, the lover you must take, is the murderer you will meet. But if you die before you wake never think death sweet.
Judith A. Wright
Am I worried about the future? I don't know. When I think of the word it's like seeing a cavity, a space where a tooth used to be.
Kirsty Eagar
What's the Future? It's a blank sheet of paper, and we draw lines on it, but sometimes our hand is held, and the lines we draw aren't the lines we wanted.
John Marsden
I still wake with your name on my lips every morning.
Melina Marchetta
when you create a lifestyle from a dream, you provide no room left; for failure.
Nikki Rowe
Selfish in his posture; material at his grasp, smirk upon his face; but this success will not last. For you see, son, his purpose; lost along the way, He started only living; for the dollar that he made. Never make that error; for a dime to loose sight of your seek, For value is not measured, by the wealth at your feet
Nikki Rowe
What would you choose if you knew you couldn't fail?
Simone Milasas
We create our own reality. The blessing (or problem) with this is that when one creates one's own reality, one must live it! Are you living a blessing or is it a curse?
Gary R. Ryan
Creativity and ideas fired between every synapse underneath my skin and I felt radiant from the inside out.
Belinda Jeffrey
Writing and drawing are very therapeutic, but they are also an excellent manifestation tool. I teach my clients to draw what they want, or to write a story about it to bring the manifestation forward into the present.
Alice McCall
Reality is only for people with no imagination.
Gavin Freeman
Life is a cracked surface at best. Fiction is a nice edifice. / every word/sentence/paragraph gives a writer an opportunity to reinforce or deliberately crack the edifice by screwing with meaning, structure, grammar, the fourth wall, etc. / different types and degrees of cracking produce different arrangements of order and chaos.
K.J. Bishop
Live life with creative purpose.
Truth Devour
I would follow in your footsteps if I wasn't so busy making my own.
Truth Devour
Rest nurtures creativity, which nurtures activity. Activity nurtures rest, which sustains creativity. Each draws from and contributes to the other.
Kim John Payne
Originality has nothing to do with producing something ’ new’ - it is about seeking the source, the primordial ground from which you draw and have always drawn your being. It comes about when one works from one’s origins, it is the dance of the eternal return… and is as ancient as the Dreamtime.
Billy Marshall-Stoneking
All of our days are numbered; we cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all because the worth of the idea never becomes apparent until you do it. Sometimes this idea can be the smallest thing in the world, a little flame that you hunch over and cup with your hand and pray will not be extinguished by all the storm that howls about it. If you can hold on to that flame great things can be constructed around it that are massive and powerful and world changing – all held up by the tinniest of ideas.
Nick Cave
Who knows their own story? Certainly it makes no sense when we are living in the midst of it. It's all just clamor and confusion. It only becomes a story when we tell it and retell it. Our small precious recollections that we speak again and again to ourselves and to others, first creating the narrative of our lives and then keeping the story from dissolving into darkness.
Nick Cave
A little care and a dash of creativity can transform the simplest items into great expressions of love.
Narissa Doumani
The question is not how can I overcome fear? The question is: how can I use it creatively? If you have problems (and we all do), how are you going to deal with them? To be is to be imperfect. Contentment is resiliency, the willingness and the ability to see the opportunities presented by mistakes. Take what you like and pay for it - failure is the price you pay for success. It is the wages of growth. Success is failing forwards, figuring out how to conduct suffering, and in its reconstruction to transform it into illumination. Eschew impatience. Let stillness teach you where your centre is, where your origins are. Be impeccable in all your dealings with the world. Integrity isn't a luxury - it's an essential. Remember the best advice of the I Ching: perseverance furthers.
Billy Marshall-Stoneking
Why write poetry? For the weird unemployment. / For the painless headaches, that must be tapped to strike / down along your writing arm at the accumulated moment. / For the adjustments after, aligning facets in a verb / before the trance leaves you. For working always beyond / your own intelligence.
Les Murray
To create is to defy emptiness. It is generous, it affirms. To make is to add to the world, not subtract from it.
Charlotte Wood
What if the very reason you were created was to be creative?
Michelle Dennis Evans
Fate, no doubt, had a hand in it.
Arlene J. Chai
Our destinies are riddled with challenges that have a tendency to ruin well laid plans. Many have attempted to take fate into their own hands and have been unsuccessful in changing it.Others find that their paths differ from what they have dreamed for themselves. We must be aware that our choices may come back to haunt us later in life, but to trust that is is all part of fate's desing.
Peter Koevari
Fulfilling our destiny and realizing our potential all begins in our mind. That's why the devil tries to bombard our thinking.
Christine Caine
...our ability to achieve our dreams and fulfill our destiny is directly influenced by our thinking. How we think determines our responses, our ability to relate to others, our level of commitment, our priorities, and the dreams we will pursue.
Christine Caine
sometimes what you have planned, is nothing like the plan your soul invited you, to this earth for.
Nikki Rowe
Love is a commitment to cherish another's heart as if it were your own, it is an adventure to seek into all that creates them, it is laying under the stars and dreaming far and wide, it is seeing fear and grabbing each others to face it anyway, it is allowing another to be themselves with out your consent, it is knowing when darkness fills them you don't carry their burden; you just lighten their load. And if your love isn't as beautiful as this, why have you been loving the wrong one for so long?
Nikki Rowe
I think the idea of a soul mate is too romanticised, Don't get me wrong; romance is bliss, but to me, A soul mate is something so much more. It is possibility when hope falls short, it is waking on a Monday excited for breakfast - because it's with them, it's finding the simple pleasures of life so exhilarating - because your side by side, it is experiencing a connection that won't break, alter or dis-courage the growth of both individual journeys, a soul mate isn't just romance, to me it is so much more.
Nikki Rowe
The beauty he saw in her was the beauty she forgot to see in herself and what a beautiful reminder, that love is what will see us all through.
Nikki Rowe
There's no need to blame fate or destiny for a stupid decision.
S.A. Tawks
She wasn't kind of lady that depended on a man and I think that's what made her so irrestible to them, any man she had loved she wanted ~ and the men that loved her back couldn't handle not being needed, so she showed them the door and grew her own wings as they walked out. Love to her isn't a maybe thing, nor is it attachment and any man whom thinks he will ever own her would be best not to try at all.
Nikki Rowe
I asked the universe for serendipity and you walked through my door.
Nikki Rowe
Give your all to every experience, feel it breathe it appreciate it, nothing lasts forever, when it's gone you'll remember the feeling it once gave you and sometimes that's enough.
Nikki Rowe
If tragedy never entered our lives, we wouldn't appreciate the magic.
Nikki Rowe
I think sometimes, despite our good intentions and wise choices, something's are up to fate and we learn to play our part the best we can.
Nikki Rowe
If fate doesn't make you laugh, then you just don't get the joke.
Gregory David Roberts
I won't deny that I haven't been this vulnerable for a long time, it scares me ~ all of it, love, emotion and connection but I've reached a point in my life that I now know this type of love doesn't knock often and when it does, maybe it's time to open the door.
Nikki Rowe
The universe whispered it's him, but I sent you away ~ I tested our connection and left it to fate, Years have passed and others have come into our lives, but here we are again, meeting another time.Our timing is off, so we set our connection free once again, trusting the winds of fate and the synchronicity it sends.
Nikki Rowe
For the first time in a long time I've met a man that makes my heart want to stay.
Nikki Rowe
Twin flame love is raw, real and rare ~ it comes when we least expect, can't understand nor have the patience to accept it, than its gone & the true test of fate starts to play. A bond built amongst the stars can't be tampered by an earthly experience, trust the distance, twin flames always meet again.
Nikki Rowe
I can't help but feel, across oceans and vast fields we will connect again. What we share is too rare to let go of for good but sometimes we have to accept, the timing isn't right.
Nikki Rowe
The irony of life is a twisted game; but my god you learn fast, the ins and outs of how to play your part the best you can.
Nikki Rowe
I can feel it, logic is trying to distract me but my heart it's screaming it's him.
Nikki Rowe
I try to forget you more often than not but somehow my mind wanders to places my heart feels are oh so very true.
Nikki Rowe
It is fate, damn destiny, that has its way with us.
Kate Mildenhall
A change of feeling is a change of destiny. - Neville Goddard P.g44
Rhonda Byrne
It's filled with magic that's how I know if something's real.
Nikki Rowe
Upon first glance I felt a sense of familiarity with you. Like we had been down this road a thousand times before, why I felt this with a complete stranger I am yet to know but I trust further down the road our chance meeting will make perfect sense.
Nikki Rowe
There is a man waiting for a woman like you, don't settle for someone who only opens half of your heart.
Nikki Rowe
Our eyes met and our souls caught on fire.
Nikki Rowe
I crave intimate love. Words that make my soul dance, a touch that gives me goosebumps, eye contact that electrifies my entire body, a kiss that could have me questioning whose air I am breathing.
Nikki Rowe
Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?
Garth Nix
Sometimes our Biggest Nightmare turns out to be our Biggest Gift. And it all comes down to our attitude. Life will throw us curve balls and disappointments, even heartbreak. But ultimately we can choose if we're going to be Bitter or Better for the experience.
Kathryn Orford
Do we find ourself or does our self get demolished?
Donna Goddard
To be creative, first we must be generous. Then we must have a quiet, indomitable belief in our own worth.
Donna Goddard
Make every mistake count and force yourself to laugh in the toughest of times.
Alex Malley