"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."

-- Henry David Thoreau

#Inspirational Quotes #Life Quotes #Motivational Quotes

“When I write something that would have made me laugh as a 10-year-old, or would have scared me or would have excited me, I know I'm onto something.”
“Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.”
“In aesthetic consciousness we enter that painless state, prized by Epicurus as the state of the gods; for a moment we are delivered from the miserable pressure of the will. We celebrate the Sabbath from the penal servitude of willing; the wheel of Ixion stands still.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“Bad, quirky poetry might be better than some of the good stuff, because it really comes from the heart.”

Source : "Cheryl Hines Interview - WAITRESS" by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 2, 2007.
“Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life.”

Source : Parker J. Palmer (2009). “A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life”, p.5, John Wiley & Sons
“Itâ€™s all about sticking to your plan and experiencing feelings as they arise. If you are unwilling to feel your feelings, the temptation is to avoid them by jumping off your system”
“I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.”
“Generosity is the flower of justice.”

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