"What obsesses a writer starting out on a lifetime's work is the panic-stricken search for a voice of his own."

-- John Mortimer

#Voice Quotes #Panic Quotes #Lifetime Quotes

“Iâ€™m living in separate universes, and I have no idea where I actually belong.”
“Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.”

Source : Mary Catherine Bateson (2001). “Composing a Life”, p.6, Grove Press
“But Shakespeare knows what the sphinx thinks, if anybody does. His genius is penetrative as cold midwinter entering every room, and making warmth shiver in ague fits. I think Shakespeare never errs in his logical sequence in character. He surprises us, seems unnatural to us, but because we have been superficial observers; while genius will disclose those truths to which we are blind.”

Source : William Alfred Quayle (1900). “A Hero and Some Other Folks”
“Nearly losing my life made me want to live my life.”
“Your mind has enormous hidden dimensions. Open yourselves completely to whatever reactions and emotions the world evokes from time to time. Accept them all without any reservation or resentment. By assimilating everything and all, your mind grows deeper, stabler and more enriched.”
“We are unlimited beings. We have no ceiling. The capabilities and the talents and the gifts and the power that is within every single individual that is on this planet, is unlimited.”

Source : FaceBook post by Michael Bernard Beckwith from Oct 17, 2012
“Your truth may not look like mine, but that is not what matters. What matters is this: You can look at a scar and see hurt, or you can look at a scar and see healing.”
“Entertainers have no brain...I get frustrated when I hear things like that from people. We have different goals. We have our own ways. I try to do the best I can, but still...”

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