"If I don't feel like writing today or for a few days, I don't. And I don't think about it. It is not an obligation-it is the greatest privilege."

-- Jonathan Carroll

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Today Quotes

“There is not a moment when I do not feel the presence of a Witness whose eye misses nothing and with whom I strive to keep in tune.”
“I think its important to remember where I began. I know that when I talk to other writers, say, writers from the South or writers from abroad, its where they begin as children that is important to them.”
“I am not a normal person. I am living in a normal body, but my mind is not normal.”
“It's a mental fake-out to myself. I make believe I'm making a new show so I forget the material I was working on and make up some fresh material.”
“Okay, this might sound vague, but do you know this one girl with hair like this?”
“To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and the only basis of lawâ€”a perversion. Inevitably, then, in seeking only them, we found only their opposites: maximum suffering and minimum security.”

Source : "A Canticle for Leibowitz". Book by Walter M. Miller, Jr., 1960.
“I think stress is anything going on in our lives that impinges on our capacity to have optimum well being.”
“The gardener uses both roses in the flowerbed and thorns in making fences.”

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