Quotes for the First Saturday of 2019

2 Cor. 1:21 "Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God;"

Quotes for a New Year Saturday

“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.” 
~ Edith Lovejoy Pierce

“Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, 
Whispering 'it will be happier'...” 
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.” 
~ Douglas Adams

“May Light always surround you;
Hope kindle and rebound you.
May your Hurts turn to Healing;
Your Heart embrace Feeling.
May Wounds become Wisdom;
Every Kindness a Prism.
May Laughter infect you;
Your Passion resurrect you.
May Goodness inspire 
your Deepest Desires.
Through all that you Reach For, 
May your arms Never Tire.” 
~ D. Simone

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” 
~ Albert Einstein

“When one's life has been shattered into a million pieces, most set out to pick up the pieces & rebuild. Others look at those broken pieces & decide this is their opportunity to start anew, the bigger picture comes into view. They see more, & want better so they leave those pieces scattered as a memorial to who they used to be!” 
~ Sanjo Jendayi

“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.” 
~ Marianne Williamson

God has blessed me!

It doesn’t mean He hasn’t blessed you, it means we all see blessings differently. Just like life, some take it for granted while others cherish every thread that leads to life. I am not blind to the darkness of this world, I just choose not to dwell there in the playground and then come home to dance in the Light. I AM TRULY BLESSED! I walk in the Light so others can see me and hopefully a little spark of mine touches them and they begin to see the Light also! 

Happy New Year, my Spiritual Family, for without you, my light might have been dimmed. God bless you all! 

Quotation Saturday

Mark 4: 40 And he said unto them, Why are ye so fearful? how is it that ye have no faith?
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JUST DO IT!

“A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of a little courage…The fact is that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.”  
- Sydney Smith

“Each of us must do massive right thinking, take massive right action and get massive right results, right here, right now.” -Mark Victor Hansen

“... if we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”  
- Ivan Turgenev

“The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.”  
- Norman Schwarzkopf


CHANGE

I wonder if ever you change human beings with arguments alone: either by peppering them with little sharp facts or by blowing them up with great guns of truth. You scare them, but do you change them?
-David Grayson


Change has considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening, because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging, because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring, because the challenge exists to make things better.
-King Whitney Jr.

INVOLVEMENT

“The question of success is not will it?... Or even will there be... Or even will it ever?... The question is... Will you? 
-Doug Firebaugh

“We must dare and dare again, and go on daring.” 
-Georges Jacques Danton

“He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.” -Abraham Lincoln

“A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.”
-Margaret Atwood


LAUGHTER

The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.
-Bennett Cerf

FEAR

    “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.”
- Marianne Williamson

Quotation Saturday

On life:

The writer in me wants to revise,edit, revise,edit. The spirit of me wants to let it flow where it may. ~joni
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Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.
~Lydia M. Child

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
~Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)

He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.
~Robertson Davies, "Fifth Business"

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
~Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
~Scott Adams

All writing is a process of elimination.
~Martha Albrand

There is no great writing, only great rewriting.
~Justice Brandeis

Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.
~Louise Brooks

Quotation Saturday

For you to enjoy and deep thoughts~~

If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.
~ Emile Zola

I can’t help but to write, I have an inner need for it. If I’m not in the middle of some literary project, I’m utterly lost, unhappy and distressed. As soon as I get started, I calm down.
~ Kaari Utrio

My purpose is to entertain myself first and other people secondly.
~ John D. MacDonald
Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted.
~ Jules Renard

The only reason for being a professional writer is that you just can't help it.
~ Leo Rosten

There is more pleasure to building castles in the air than on the ground.
~ Edward Gibbon

Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.
~~ John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)

“Detail makes the difference between boring and terrific writing. Its the difference between a pencil sketch and a lush oil painting. As a writer, words are your paint. Use all the colors.”
~~ Rhys Alexander Writing Gooder, 12-09-05

Quotation Saturday

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
~Marcel Proust

As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
~Marcel Proust

They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talk about writing or themselves.

~Lillian Hellman

You must learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your own work.

~William Gibson

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.

~Benjamin Franklin

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

~Albert Einstein

If you start with a bang, you won't end with a whimper.

~T. S. Eliot

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The spirit of creation is the spirit of contradiction. It is the breakthrough of appearances toward an unknown reality.

~Joan Cocteau

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.
~Marcel Proust

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.

~Marcel Proust

Quotation Saturday

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. ~George Orwell, "Why I Write," 1947

One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment.

~Hart Crane

Let me walk through the fields of papertouching with my wanddry stems and stunted butterflies....

~Denise Levertov, "A Walk through the Notebooks"

When you are describing,A shape, or sound, or tint;

Don't state the matter plainly,

But put it in a hint;

And learn to look at all things,

With a sort of mental squint.

~Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)

I'd rather be caught holding up a bank than stealing so much as a two-word phrase from another writer.

~Jack Smith

There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.

~Miguel de Cervantes

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

~Henry David Thoreau, Journal, 19 August 1851

Sit down, and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.

~Colette, Casual Chance, 1964

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.

~William Styron, interview, Writers at Work, 1958