Some of my Favorite Quotes
Writing
teaches
writing.
- John McPhee-
When we fall on the ground it hurts us, but we also need to rely on the ground to get back up.
~ Kathleen
McDonald
The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who'll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get
to work.
- Chuck Close -
Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage,
you can't practice any other virtue consistently.
-Maya Angelou-
Compassion
is a
verb.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh ~
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
- Mark Twain
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our our lives have already become.
- C. S. Lewis -
It’s not possible for children any longer to just understand their own communities. They need to understand the world and they need to have vicarious experiences of it, and they need to have empathy for the range of experience that exists beyond their own borders.
~ Nancie Atwell ~