"We do not have to live in the dark they live in."

-- Burnie Burns

“Appreciation is a powerful tool to shift perspective. Finding something to appreciate during a difficult situation quickly moves the perspective to the big picture from the little picture.”
“Don't be ashamed of your own ideas. Most musicians get applauded for sounding like someone else.”
“I realize I'm a free spirit. I like to be happy. I have to have more control of my happiness.”
“It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure what is carried beneath them quite automatically, if one has long been a reader of the press journalism.”
“When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins.”
“On the horizon, he saw the full moon. God dropped it there, he was sure, as a reminder of our small place in the world. A reminder that what is beautiful is fleeting.”

Source : Ben Sherwood (2010). “Charlie St. Cloud: A Novel”, p.18, Bantam
“From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books.”
“Once you've had enough and you can't do it anymore, you consider the possibility that there might be a better way. That's when your head cracks open and God comes in.”

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