"Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender"

-- Elizabeth Gilbert

#Forgiveness Quotes #Needs Quotes #Surrender Quotes

“Look what's happened to Barack Obama over the last two years or George Bush for eight. It's a blood sport. But at some point I may feel the need to run for office again.”

Source : "Morning Joe to run again?" by Jennifer Epstein, www.politico.com. December 30, 2010.
“Donâ€™t be gloomy. Do not dwell on unkind things. Stop seeking out the storms and enjoy more fully the sunlight. Even if you are not happy, put a smile on your face. â€˜Accentuate the positive.â€™ Look a little deeper for the good. Go forward in life with a twinkle in your eye and a smile on your face, with great and strong purpose in your heart. Love life.”
“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
“My high school wasn't a big public school; it was tiny. There were 36 girls in my graduating class. We were a big group of girls that by the time senior year came along couldn't wait to get away from school fast enough but we loved each other. It's really fun to see the girls at reunions now.”
“For lack of any clearer idea, I just started acting one day. It had been in the back of my head for a while, but I think in some ways I was afraid to do it, and finally I just stepped up.”
“I don't think he (Joseph Albers, fh) ever realized that it was his discipline that I came for. Besides, my response to what I learned from him was just the opposite of what he intended.. ..I was very hesitant about arbitrarily designing forms and selecting colors that would achieve some predetermined result, because I didn't have any ideas to support that sort of thing - I didn't want color to serve me, in other words.”
“Choices are like connecting highways. They all take you to the same place. Some just take longer to get there.”

Source : "Fictional character: Frankie". "Dream for an Insomniac", www.imdb.com. 1996.
“I'm always glad that other people are way smarter about my poems than I am.”

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