"Live as big as you can, with what you've got."

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Source : Jill Shalvis (2012). “Instant Attraction”, p.58, Kensington Books

Jill Shalvis

“However gnawing a deficiency, satiety is worse... We are meant to be hungry.”
“You need to be surrounded by good advisers, but you also need to trust your instinct.”
“You have to get rid of borders, limits, and classifications; then light comes. We see everything on the screen of our ideas. We must get rid of that screen to be able to see what is behind. X's ideas are limited, that is why he remains on the surface. Y got rid of the limits, so she always goes to the depths. We should always meet people and new subjects with no set frame of mind. We have to live like that even after long acquaintance. We must get rid of every set idea to approach everything and everyone with love.”
“After the sharp-eyed jay and the roaring lion, peace will come on dove's gentle wing.”
“I write poems from dreams pretty frequently. It's limiting to think the poem has to come from a sensical lyric "I" stating things clearly or dramatically. This whole course is trying to say there are millions of ways to approach writing a poem.”
“Give generously - and receive graciously.”
“..The truly fraudulent claims must be discarded. But novel methods of therapy should not be rejected because they are novel, or because they run counter to some generally accepted belief ("which may just be biased"), or because we do not understand the mechanism of the proposed treatment, or because it has come from an unconventional source.”
“When you don't have much money, you get creative. There's so much money that gets wasted on big movie sets. But when you don't have much money, you improvise.”

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