"The reason I spend thousands of lifetime hours creating something 99 percent of which no one else is likely to ever read is that writing itself is the gift."

-- Christina Baldwin

#Writing Quotes #Creating Quotes #Lifetime Quotes

“Luck is earned. Luck is working so hard at your craft, service or enterprise that sooner or later you get a break.”
“With issues like our country's teen-age pregnancy rate, fashion's importance ranks right up there with cleaning your ears. Except right before going on television to talk about teen-age pregnancy rates, when all I can think of is what I'm going to wear.”
“Profound question is how do you measure the non-skills component of what goes on in schools: values, curiosity, critical thinking, and so on. That's very tough. Maybe everything worthwhile can't be measured.”
“It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.”
“Anna, falling in love with you was like coming home to a place I didn't realize I'd been missing all my life. You're the only person I've ever known who accepts me for who I am, right in this moment, faults and all, and isn't waiting for me to become someone else.”

Source : Jennifer Chiaverini (2011). “The Wedding Quilt: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel”, p.83, Penguin
“A coin is turned around before it is handed to the beggar, yet a child is unflinchingly tossed into cosmic bruteness.”

Source : "Essays og epistler". Book by Peter Wessel Zapffe, 1967.
“A cow's heaven is a flower's idea of hell.”
“The bullied straight kid goes home to a shoulder to cry on and support and can talk freely about his experience at school and why he's being bullied. I couldn't go home and open up to my parents.”

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