Jeanne Marie Laskas famous quotes

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Isolation is aloneness that feels forced upon you, like a punishment. Solitude is aloneness you choose and embrace. I think great things can come out of solitude, out of going to a place where all is quiet except the beating of your heart.
-- Jeanne Marie Laskas

#Being Alone #Heart #Thinking
All peace-loving women shut up when they sense they have stepped onto Guy Turf. Guy Turf is a murky realm of ego and pride and chivalry and testosterone and heroism.
-- Jeanne Marie Laskas

#Pride #Guy #Ego
It's much better to be apart and wish you were together than to be together and wish you were apart.
-- Jeanne Marie Laskas

#Wish #Together
Forgiveness is the path to healing.
-- Jeanne Marie Laskas

#Forgiveness #Healing #Path
You plant a garden one flower at a time. ... You write a book one word at a time, clean a closet one shelf at a time, run a marathon one step at a time. If you feel defeated by some large task, get your spade and dig the first hole.
-- Jeanne Marie Laskas

#Running #Perseverance #Determination
Maybe the biggest problem with loneliness is that we walk around thinking we're the only ones suffering from it.
-- Jeanne Marie Laskas

#Loneliness #Thinking #Suffering
This is one of the take-home messages for me: we just walk around with this narrative in America that everybody wants to be rich and famous. That thatâ€™s why people do what they do. And you know, all through these pages you learn over and over again no, actually not even NFL cheerleaders are doing it for fame and fortune. Thereâ€™s another motivation going on that is so pure and human. That to me was an eye-opener in a really wonderful way.
-- Jeanne Marie Laskas

#Motivation #Home #Eye
I wanted to go to a place where I could think, really sink into my own imagination, or ride it, or drift along it, as in a balloon. The kind of place that probably all writers crave. The kind of place where the outside world is still and quiet and you get a chance to listen, to peer, to go inward
-- Jeanne Marie Laskas

#Thinking #Imagination #Inward
But the writing life, it turned out, was difficult. It wasn't like you could sit down and flip a switch and crank on the ventilation system. Sometimes it didn't work, and sometimes you couldn't even find the switch.
-- Jeanne Marie Laskas

#Writing #Down And #Flip
I think the call of the inward life starts here. Solitude helps you differentiate, define the borders of the self. Solitude helps you figure our where everybody else stops and you begins.
-- Jeanne Marie Laskas

#Thinking #Self #Solitude
I was suppose to write a book about being a mom, to organize my thoughts into chapters and figure out a structure to hang them on, to make a lasting point, but somehow I decided to go ahead and become a mother instead.
-- Jeanne Marie Laskas

#Mom #Mother #Book
Dreams are matters of the heart, things that pull you along as if they have hooked you someplace deep inside.
-- Jeanne Marie Laskas

#Dream #Heart #Matter
You can make your life so much larger simply be acknowledging everyone else's.
-- Jeanne Marie Laskas

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