"We're not meant for happiness, you and I."

-- Daphne du Maurier

“Writing is like meditation or going into an ESP trance, or prayer. Like dreaming. You are tapping into your unconscious. To be fully conscious and alert, with life banging and popping and cuckooing all around, you are not going to find your way to your subconscious, which is a place of complete submission.”
“No greater responsibility can rest upon a man, than to be a teacher of God's children”
“If there are no endings, there are no beginnings and you see no new lands, so for everything that's lost, there is usually something gained.”

Source : Merle Shain (1973). “Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others”
“I happened to take a photo, and there was my wife, my dog and my banjo, all in the same shot - and I thought, "Oh, that's like a family portrait right there."”
“You know, I find it so difficult being a... as a matter of fact, little do people know that most of the leading members of the cast have a background that they would never expect them to have, and play the show they did.”
“I've been transformed by stories, and I think that storytelling is definitely sacred. I take it very seriously because my life has been changed, whether it was a movie, a play, a piece of writing, poetry, a painting.”

Source : Source: www.sheknows.com
“There might be a few things in a woman's life that a romantic interlude won't cure, but I don't know any of them.”
“The Holy Spirit is our comforter, our teacher. That's why, in prayer, we can ask the Lord to open up Scripture and make it come alive to us, to open our understanding. He left his Spirit with us until we join him in Heaven.”

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