"Rewriting is the essence of writing well: it's where the game is won or lost. The idea is hard to accept. We all have emotional equity in our first draft; we can't believe that it wasn't born perfect. But the odds are close to 100 percent that it wasn't."

-- William Zinsser

#Believe Quotes #Writing Quotes #Emotional Quotes

“Since I was young my wish has been to die in perfect health - I mean to die with a body that is not destroyed by illness but a body that is consumed by its own long burning fire.”

Source : Source: www.whitelotus.org
“Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex, and the foundation of intelligence.”

Source : Jeff Hawkins, Sandra Blakeslee (2007). “On Intelligence”, p.89, Macmillan
“Without peace, there is nothing truly human. Peace is harmony. And harmony is the highest ideal of life.”
“And I was in another band called Flash In The Pan, which was soca, Latin music, down in Laguna Beach.”
“Truth is the most powerful force on earth because it cannot be changed.”

Source : Mike Murdock (1994). “The One-Minute Businessman's Devotional”, Honor Books
“Asking God for a specific thing will amount to limiting God to a specific answer.”
“True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it was, and is, the sheer weight of numbers of those who failed of this that has made their influence on the modern life as pervasive and controlling as it is.”

Source : RALPH ADAMS CRAM (1922). “TOWARDS THE GREAT PEACE”
“The unoccupied fields of the world must have their Calvary before they have their Pentecost.”

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