"Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift."

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Source : Willie Morris (1970). “North toward home”, Yoknapatawpha Pr

Mary Oliver

#Love Quotes #Inspirational Quotes #Life Quotes

“Whether we like it or not, life has a lot of drama and pain. But God is writing a great story. Are we going to let Him? Are we going to trust Him?”
“I think people use fame as an excuse to lose their faith. Faith is obviously my number one priority and I think you need to put God at the top of everything you do.”

Source : "'Duck Dynasty’ star Sadie Robertson: Fame is not an excuse to lose your faith". Interview with Sasha Savitsky, www.foxnews.com. March 11, 2014.
“A lot of people call Dizzy old fashioned but so is the bible.”

Source : Interview with Ethan Iverson, ethaniverson.com. April 2011.
“If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.”
“Beyond the rightness or wrongness of things there is a field, I'll meet you there”
“Fear of failure is the fuel of achievement. If you weren't afraid to fail, you probably wouldn't be highly motivated to work at the level that most of us have to work at to do well.”
“I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system -- that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.”
“Don't have conversations taking place in empty space. Weave in background details of where the action (dialogue is a form of "action") is taking place. Don't have invisible people talking, either. Let the reader see them as they speak - their facial expressions and gestures. And by all means "cue" the speeches to the speakers.”

Source : Lee Wyndham (1972). “Writing for children and teen-agers”, Writer's Digest Books

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