"Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people who love God back."

-- Anne Lamott

#Inspirational Quotes #Teenager Quotes #People Quotes

“The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and no longer human.”
“We have our own brains.”

Source : "Musharraf to West: 'We have our own brains'" by Becky Anderson, Barry Neild and Wayne Drash, www.cnn.com. January 25, 2008.
“Try to write in a directly emotional way, instead of being too subtle or oblique. Don't be afraid of your material or your past. Be afraid of wasting any more time obsessing about how you look and how people see you. Be afraid of not getting your writing done.”
“In rowing, you're always striving for that perfect stroke, that repetition, each one being as good as the last. Same thing with cooking. You can't say, 'Oh, I don't feel well, so I'm going to put out a crappy plate.'”
“Whatever else you may need to get clarity, you must start with open eyes.”

Source : Susan Neiman (2009). “Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-Up Idealists”, p.430, Princeton University Press
“Paint here no draped despairs, no saddening clouds Where the soul rests, proclaims eternity. But let the wrong cry out as raw as wounds This Time forgets and never heals, far less transcends.”
“Dogs and other animals - goats, donkeys, cows, a grumpy rooster - continue to change my writing life.”
“Nature is entirely indifferent to any reform. She perpetuates a fault as persistently as a virtue.”

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