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I finally understood what my grandmother meant. If I wasn't comfortable with myself, I would never be comfortable.

Marjane Satrapi

The ego is the false self-born out of fear and defensiveness.

Without dignity, identity is erased.

Laura Hillenbrand

I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.

Race doesn't determine the quality of one's heart

one's mental programming does.

Life is meant to be a journey of continuous progress

not an occasional or constant competition with others.

Every obstacle is meant to be temporary

try not to make yours permanent in your life.

Life is a lot more easier when you are living it to impress your positive inner-self. Most people are quite hard to impress

so why waste your time and energy trying to impress them?

Obstacles are like gym sessions

they can only make me stronger.

Success is not a game of luck

it is a game of willpower.

Don't be scared to try and fail

be afraid to fail to try.

Happiness is one of your core entitlements on earth

by all means don't deprive yourself from living happily.

Don't aim to be a perfect being

strive to become a better person.

Some people become fully discouraged in life because of their series of mistakes and failures

while others succeed by consistently learning from theirs.

Circumstances don't come to distract you from the spirit of gratitude

negative interpretations of them do.

Prospering and living happily aren't things to wish for

they are abilities that you were already born with.

Failure is only temporary

please try not to make it permanent in your life.

It is really not about living life

instead it is about living it wisely.

Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.

George R.R. Martin

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

Chuck Palahniuk

We know what we are, but not what we may be.

William Shakespeare

It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

Patrick Rothfuss

Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.

Orson Scott Card

The journey of life is tough

so why dare to drag some negative burdens along?

Being good at what you do is never enough

dare to be extraordinarily great.

Working hard gets you started

working smart guarantees your success.

Don't search for perfection nor seek the approval of others

your inner positive fulfillment doesn't depend on them.

Try not to attract stress in your life through procrastination

the future already has its challenging demands.

Happiness is free like the air we all breathe

yet most people spend a lifetime unable to experience it.

Race doesn't make a man

his mental programming determines his personality.

Don't pay attention to negative peer and societal pressures. They can never add more success and happiness to your life

so why even bother with them?

A writer's pen depreciates with every word that it writes. Whereas she appreciates with every word that she writes.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

What you really want is all too often hidden just behind what you think you want.

Those who can't, and can't teach, translate.(attrib: F.L. Vanderson)

Mort W. Lumsden

Let life be the foundation. Be brave. Wander deep inside yourself to the little room no one knows about. Fling the door wide open and write.

Perhaps as writers, we too should embrace the concept of wabi-sabi:

J.A. Pak

But the artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is a gift and not an acquisition— and, therefore, more permanently enduring. He speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain; to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation— and to the subtle but invincible conviction of solidarity that knits together the loneliness of innumerable hearts, to the solidarity in dreams, in joy, in sorrow, in aspirations, in illusions, in hope, in fear, which binds men to each other, which binds together all humanity— the dead to the living and the living to the unborn.

Strong people write bad stories.

A writer is merely a reader that had the guts to be read, and, heard.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

That's okay," I said. "We're writers. We make things up.

He finished his drink. 'I don’t like mornings either,' he said. “That’s why I’m a writer.

Dorothy B. Hughes

A witer's mind is NEVER silent. It is always conducting the next symphony of words.

There are more writers who read than readers who write.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results - then success is insanity squared!(2012 SCBWI New Member Conference; Richmond, VA)

Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law as one prohibiting liquor is foolish, and all the writers, keenly interested in human welfare whom I know, laugh at the prohibition law.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

To put an arrogant 'famous' writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Me to Comma: I will never get use to you wanting to butt your way into my sentences -- even if you're right.

I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away.

...every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought he would never write another word.

Three words for a writer: Make me care.

As I drove out the wrought iron gates I had entered, I noticed for the first time how intricate and beautiful they were. They were forged by hand so many years ago and had stood the test of time.

I write because that is what I am supposed to do.

Writers start with a grain of sand, and then create a beach.

His fame as an artist requires very tender care. Look what a mask of diplomacy is painstakingly formed by the whole of that fine profile; he is as wily as a cardinal. He has scented in Miss White a useful agent of celebrity, and he has come solely to harness her to the cause of his glory. It is himself that he courts by means of the salaams he offers to her; he only ever flirts with himself. He is the Narcissus of the inkpot...

Meeting writers is always so disappointing. I got over wanting to meet live writers quite a long time ago. There is this terrific book that has changed your life, and then you meet the author, and he has shifty eyes and funny shoes and he won't talk about anything except the injustice of the United States income tax structure toward people with fluctuating income, or how to breed Black Angus cows, or something.

Ursula K Le Guin

In writing, the point is not to manifest or exalt the act of writing, nor is it to pin a subject within language; it is, rather, a question of creating a space into which the writing subject constantly disappears.

Michel Foucault

I was always aware that Jack loved women not only for their bodies but for the stories that came into being as they interacted with him--they were part of his "road," the infinite range of experience that always had to remain open to fuel his work.

The expectation that TV women need to be more likeable than men is bullshit and in need of a change.

Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors.All are continually asking, "What does this represent? What does it stand for?"They are trying to take everything one level deeper. When they get to that level, they will try to go deeper again.

Steven Pressfield

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