"When I come across writing that really moves me and inspires me, my reaction is twofold. I want to share it with others and I want to draw something that is worthy of it. I love finding quotes that stop people-that really make them think. And I love the idea that my work, combined with meaningful words, can provide comfort or inspiration to someone."

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Source : Mary Engelbreit, Patrick Regan (2006). “Artful Words: Mary Engelbreit and the Illustrated Quote”, p.53, Andrews McMeel Publishing

Mary Engelbreit

#Meaningful Quotes #Moving Quotes #Inspiration Quotes

“I see myself continuing to be a songwriter and a motivator and someone that has grown in her faith.”

Source : Interview with reporters during a media conference call, idol.blogs.pressdemocrat.com. March 11, 2011.
“Anne Pitkin's poems have such lyrical sweep, such a sensitive eye for the natural world as it touches the human, that reading Winter Arguments is like seeing a landscape or, better, a richly realized painting of a landscape dotted with figures. But that would leave out their music, which would be a loss. This is a wise and graceful book by a well-traveled woman who knows how to confront deep feeling and frame it to make it all the more intense.”
“Theater is so ephemeral, and I love that.”
“I never sweat, which you might notice in pictures.”

Source : Johnny Ramone (2012). “Commando: The Autobiography of Johnny Ramone”, p.77, Abrams
“When [the saints] perform actions to God, then the soul says: 'Oh! that I could do what pleases God!' When they come to suffer any cross: 'Oh, that what God does might please me!' I labour to do what pleases God, and I labour that what God does shall please me: here is a Christian indeed, who shall endeavour both these. It is but one side of a Christian to endeavour to do what pleases God; you must as well endeavour to be pleased with what God does, and so you will come to be a complete Christian when you can do both, and that is the first thing in the excellence of this grace of contentment.”
“Why shouldnâ€™t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.”
“Without a Sabbath, no worship; without worship, no religion; and without religion, no permanent freedom.”
“The writer labors in isolation, yet all that intensive, lonely work is in the service of communicating, is an attempt to reach another person.”

Source : Betsy Lerner (2016). “The Forest for the Trees: An editor's advice to writers”, p.6, Pan Macmillan

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