"Writing is so hard. And then, sometimes, it is so bewilderingly easy."

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Patricia Hampl

#Writing Quotes #Sometimes Quotes #Easy Quotes

“If you can't help people, then what is the point of being successful?”
“Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.”
“Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.”
“Develop a built-in bullshit detector.”
“We have been taught to wish for it, but the wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we hang on, as adults , to our grudge against our mothers; the way we never let our mothers off the hook for their not meeting our every need. Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.”

Source : "Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life".
“The foolish rush to end their lives. Only the steadfast soul survives.”
“Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.”

Source : James Allen (2014). “As You Think - A New Thought Classic for Today's Woman”, p.24, Lulu Press, Inc
“We also have to stop the flow of precursor chemicals that meth cooks use to boil up this poison.”

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