"I like to write about the way things used to be and paint pictures of my memories with beautiful words and melodies."

-- Lana Del Rey

#Beautiful Quotes #Memories Quotes #Writing Quotes

“I tend to overuse the word "project" only because "book" is terrifying while I'm still in the middle of something. A project can fail. I don't want a book to fail.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“If feminism wasn't powerful, if feminism wasn't influential, people wouldn't spend so much time putting it down.”
“Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.”
“Good friends, how then are meditation and wisdom alike? They are like the lamp and the light it gives forth. If there is a lamp there is light; if there is no lamp there is no light. The lamp is the substance of light; the light is the function of the lamp. Thus, although they have two names, in substance they are not two. Meditation and wisdom are also like this.”

Source : Huineng (1967). “The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch”
“Say a thing well and it will be remembered-and so too will you.”
“The lazy man aims at nothing, and generally hits it.”
“I stopped writing short fiction early on - I was never really good at it, and I never liked the results. So I stopped trying to fit the material I was working with into these tidy little short fiction packages.”
“You have nothing in this world more precious than your children. When you grow old, when your hair turns white and your body grows weary, when you are prone to sit in a rocker and meditate on the things of your life, nothing will be so important as the question of how your children have turned out... Do not trade your birthright as a mother for some bauble of passing value... The baby you hold in your arms will grow as quickly as the sunrise and the sunset of the rushing days.”

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