"Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act."

-- Margaret Mahy

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“I wish to please the people, but I want to make them cry, perhaps. There, I have said it.”
“Everything you do right now ripples outward and affects everyone. Your posture can shine your heart or transmit anxiety. Your breath can radiate love or muddy the room in depression. Your glance can awaken joy. Your words can inspire freedom. Your every act can open hearts and minds.”

Source : David Deida (2009). “Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide to Life and Death and Love and Sex”, p.7, ReadHowYouWant.com
“All things are connected, like the blood that runs in your family "The water's murmur is the voice of my father's father." 1854 The rivers are our brothers. They quench our thirst. They carry our canoes and feed our children. You must give to the rivers the kindness you would give to any brother.”
“Sometimes we just have to cut off the dead branches in our life. Sometimes that's the only way we can keep the tree alive. It's hard and it hurts, but it's what's best.”

Source : Nicole Williams (2014). “Lost & Found”, p.424, Nicole Williams
“The continual cracking of your feet on the road makes a certain quantity of road come up into you. When a man dies they say he returns to clay but too much walking fills you up with clay far sooner (or buries bits of you along the road) and brings your death half-way to meet you. It is not easy to know what is the best way to move yourself from one place to another.”

Source : Flann O'Brien (2007). “The Complete Novels”, Everyman's Library
“I hope that my work helps people - that's the thing that drives me and keeps me going.”

Source : Source: www.marieclaire.com
“You speak what you believe, and you believe youâ€™re doomed. If thereâ€™s one thing Iâ€™ve learned throughout the years, itâ€™s that what you believe is the impetus for your entire life.”
“Healing is simply attempting to do more of those things that bring joy and fewer of those things that bring pain”

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