"Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It's a gift to the world and every being in it. Don't cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you've got."

-- Steven Pressfield

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“Actually, for everybody, having sex the first time is never a good time. It's always a disaster.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Depression is a death within, a knowledge - terrifying - that you cannot resurrect yourself. Depression is loss of the vision that lets leaves breathe and fall, that lets the air smell of seed and soil. And there must be rage, yes I think there is rage toward such a severing, such a ragged-deep rupture with the world.”

Source : Lauren Slater (2012). “Welcome to My Country”, p.129, Anchor
“Consider the possibility of infinite possibility.”
“i sometimes felt as if these marks on my body were a kind of code, which blossomed, then faded, like invisible ink held to a candle. But if they were a code, who held the key to it? I was sand, I was snowâ€”written on, rewritten, smoothed over.”
“We need to be kinder with one another, more gentle and forgiving. We need to be slower to anger and more prompt to help. We need to extend the hand of friendship and resist the hand of retribution. In short, we need to love one another with the pure love of Christ, with genuine charity and compassion and, if necessary, shared suffering, for that is the way God loves us.”

Source : Howard W. Hunter (1994). “That We Might Have Joy”, Shadow Mountain
“If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.”
“Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.”
“I don't forgive people because I'm weak, I forgive them because I am strong enough to know people make mistakes.”

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