"If you can be anything else but a writer, be it."

-- Kate Braverman

“Do you know that part on your resume where they ask if you have any special skills? Well, it's the thing where they ask you to list like, 'yoga, Spanish, water skiing, Photoshop.' I feel like I don't have any special skills.”
“What you eat, how much you exercise, what example you set for those you influence are all matters of choice. Consistently making that best choice will add up to living your best life. Your health is the key to that.”

Source : "Origin Series: Empire Actor Adam Rodriguez On Reading Food Labels, Three Phrases to Live By, to Win for Love, Forward Thinking, and How We’re All in This Together". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. November 16, 2015.
“These last years are as important as any that have gone before, nor will any other of our years vitiate or excuse them. The struggle continues.”
“I have observed several hundred salespeople who were taught to use deceptive practices like 'bait and switch' and encouraged to play negotiation games with customers. They were so stressed by this behavior that they suffered from a high incidence of alcohol and substance abuse, divorce, job-jumping, and low productivity. In the same industry, I have observed countless people who had been taught to sell with high integrity. Ironically, their customer satisfaction, profit margins, and salesperson retention were significantly higher.”

Source : Ron Willingham (2009). “Integrity Selling for the 21st Century: How to Sell the Way People Want to Buy”, p.13, Crown Business
“Practically every false doctrine comes from getting things out of order. God's divine order is salvation, then change; not change and then salvation! If one has to be changed to be saved, that's salvation by works. It is also salvation by the flesh. The truth is, one is cleansed from the sins of the flesh just as he is saved; by yielding to the Holy Spirit and letting Him do His work.”
“In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity;â€”in that of poets of amusementâ€”in that of the priest and the lawyer of mischievous immorality in the shape of mischievous ambition,â€”and too often both priest and lawyer have framed or made in part this instrument.”
“I despise this weakness in myself--this endless one-sided conversation that takes the place of action...”

Source : Stef Penney (2008). “The Tenderness of Wolves: A Novel”, p.115, Simon and Schuster
“Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God.”

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