"No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you will inevitably and helplessly write. A born writer has self-knowledge. Read, read, read. And if you are a fiction writer, dont confine yourself to reading fiction. Every writer is first a wide reader."

-- Cynthia Ozick

#Reading Quotes #Writing Quotes #Self Quotes

“We are the rags to riches story, okay, the Robertson's are. Okay? We had very humble beginnings. Everybody's trying to figure out what, what's behind it, and all the Robertsons say, 'Hey, it's divine intervention.' Me personally, okay, God's gonna take 'Duck Dynasty' where he wants it to go, okay, and to the people that he wants it to go to.”
“Burning is no answer.”
“Like pride, blind optimism may go before a fall.”

Source : David G. Myers (2008). “Intuition: Its Powers and Perils”, p.85, Yale University Press
“...a choice had to be made when your husband said something unkind. Specifically: be cruel, be strong, or sulk. 'Be cruel' by saying an unkind thing back. 'Be strong' by choosing not to mind. But to do this, you have to use up a piece of your love. You have to shave off enough of the love to forgive. After a while, the piece might grow back, but sometimes not. And if you shave off all the soft curves, you'll be left with a sharp-edged love. 'Sulk' by sulking. Sulking is simply delaying the choice to be cruel or strong.”
“There's been a lot of speculation about every single girl I'm with and it actually does quite irritate me after a while, more so because it's a complete pain for the girls.”
“The more grateful you are for everything good that comes into your life, the more closely you place your mind in contact with that power in life that can produce greater good.”

Source : Christian D. Larson (2016). “Your Forces and How to Use Them”, p.166, Christian D. Larson
“Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still write letters that kill.”
“If everybody switched to organic farming, we couldn't support the earth's current population - maybe half.”

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