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"If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path."
— Joseph Campbell

28 people liked it

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: growth
604 people liked it

"If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: writing
178 people liked it

"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."
— Sylvia Plath

tags: writing
567 people liked it

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: best, life, love, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
10,560 people liked it

""you can tell the deepest truths with the lies of fiction"
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— Isabel Allende

45 people liked it

"All sorrows can be borne if you can put them into a story."
— Isak Dinesen

10 people liked it

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
— Edgar Allan Poe

tags: day, dreaming, dreams, night
584 people liked it

"When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it."
— Clarence Darrow

tags: inspirational, president
9 people liked it

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: life, philosophy
3,609 people liked it

"Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth."
— Lillian Hellman

5 people liked it

"A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading."
— William Styron

tags: books, reading
601 people liked it

"Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it."
— Henry David Thoreau

tags: authority, conformity, fool, foolishness, rule, rules
62 people liked it

"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity"
— Henry David Thoreau

42 people liked it

"The cruelest lies are often told in silence. "
— Robert Louis Stevenson

18 people liked it

"The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me."
— W.H. Auden

11 people liked it

"The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say."
— Anaïs Nin

91 people liked it

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: be-yourself, confidence, individuality, those-who-matter
18,010 people liked it

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
— Maya Angelou

tags: life
11,113 people liked it

"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor, insanity, life
9,442 people liked it

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough"
— Mae West

tags: humor, life
8,751 people liked it

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
— Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
7,077 people liked it

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
— Robert Frost

tags: life
7,030 people liked it

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: accomplishment, be-yourself, conformity, individuality, world
6,796 people liked it

"Without music, life would be a mistake."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
5,569 people liked it

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
— Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan)

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
4,982 people liked it

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
— Maya Angelou

tags: inspirational, stories, writing
2,657 people liked it

"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: good, writing
1,896 people liked it

"You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write."
— Saul Bellow

tags: imagination, inspiration, writing
267 people liked it

"A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."
— Thomas Mann

tags: writers, writing
198 people liked it

"Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted."
— Jules Renard

tags: writing
191 people liked it

"One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper."
— Michael Cunningham (The Hours)

tags: fiction, life, writing
227 people liked it

"Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write."
— Rainer Maria Rilke

tags: writing
157 people liked it

"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."
— Willa Cather

tags: life, writing
137 people liked it

"There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."
— W. Somerset Maugham

tags: writing
94 people liked it

"Writing is a constant exercise in longing."
— Isabel Allende

12 people liked it

"The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything."
— Isabel Allende (City of the Beasts)

5 people liked it

"After a few months without writing, months I've lived turned outward... I fear going deaf, not being able to hear the silence.
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— Isabel Allende

tags: inspirational
3 people liked it

"The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes. "
— Agatha Christie

tags: writing
39 people liked it

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling
14,586 people liked it

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