"I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your life's work, and try to get hold of a giant panda."

-- Anne Lamott

#Secret Quotes #Trying Quotes #Giants Quotes

“Remember, you didnâ€™t come here to write your heart out. You came to write it in.”
“Fear comes from the unknown. Once you know, then, whatever.”
“My advice is not to wait to be struck by an idea. If you're a writer, you sit down and damn well decide to have an idea. That's the way to get an idea.”
“We shall not refuse tobacco the credit of being sometimes medical, when used temperately, though an acknowledged poison.”

Source : Jesse Torrey (1819). “The Moral Instructor, and Guide to Virtue and Happiness: Being a Compendium of Moral Science, in Four Parts ... : with an Appendix Containing Directions for the Institution of Free Public Libraries, and Reading Societies : Designed for the Use of Families, and the Highest Classes in Common Schools and Academies”, p.186
“The hardest part of watching someone watching me is making it appear that I'm not watching.”
“A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.”

Source : "It is", No.4, Magazine for Abstract Art, Second Half Publishing Co., New York pp. 29, 30, Autumn, 1959.
“What has happened to create this doubt is that a problem (such as a deep conflict or a bad experience) has been allowed to usurp God's place and become the controlling principle of life. Instead of viewing the problem from the vantage point of faith, the doubter views faith from the vantage point of the problem. Instead of faith sizing up the problem, the situation ends with the problem scaling down faith. The world of faith is upside down, and in the topsy-turvy reality of doubt, a problem has become god and God has become a problem.”
“The bird of truth would not be able to fly if it weren't for the air of lies we breathe.”

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