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  • #1
    Maya Angelou
    “Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #2
    Maya Angelou
    “When you learn, teach, when you get, give.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #3
    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #4
    Phyllis Diller
    “A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.”
    Phyllis Diller

  • #5
    Phyllis Diller
    “Housework won't kill you, but then again, why take the chance?”
    Phyllis Diller

  • #6
    E.B. White
    “I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
    E. B. White

  • #7
    Maggie Thom
    “Escape to Read and Read to Escape!”
    Maggie Thom

  • #8
    Lindsay Paige
    “Her smile brings a smile to my lips every time. Knowing that sometimes, I'm the one who caused that makes me even happier.”
    Lindsay Paige, Sweetness

  • #9
    John Cheever
    “I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you can’t do it alone.”
    John Cheever

  • #10
    Steve Maraboli
    “Sometimes life knocks you on your ass... get up, get up, get up!!! Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.”
    Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

  • #11
    Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.
    “Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
    Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

  • #12
    Richelle E. Goodrich
    “One grateful thought is a ray of sunshine.  A hundred such thoughts paint a sunrise.  A thousand will rival the glaring sky at noonday - for gratitude is light against the darkness.”
    Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

  • #13
    Anna Bayes
    “I know logically that I can live without him, but loving him has become such an integral, necessary part of my life; I am not sure I could stop, even if we parted.”
    Anna Bayes, Under His Wings

  • #14
    Saul Bellow
    “You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
    Saul Bellow

  • #15
    Mark Twain
    “Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
    Mark Twain

  • #16
    Ray Bradbury
    “You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
    Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

  • #17
    Anna Bayes
    “Being a writer brings out a sassy woman inside me, and I love her so.”
    Anna Bayes

  • #18
    Julian Barnes
    “When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.”
    Julian Barnes

  • #19
    Robin McKinley
    “When you write your first novel you don't really know what you're doing. There may be writers out there who are brilliant, incisive and in control from their first 'Once upon a time'. I'm not one of them. Every once upon a time for me is another experience of white-water rafting in a leaky inner tube. And I have this theory that while the Story Council has its faults, it does have some idea that if books are going to get written, authors have to be able to write them.”
    Robin McKinley

  • #20
    W. Somerset Maugham
    “If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.”
    W. Somerset Maugham

  • #21
    Anna Bayes
    “Revenge is not sweet; it is gloomy and a waste of time.”
    Anna Bayes, Through His Lens

  • #22
    R.J. Anderson
    “Once upon a time there was a girl who was special. This is not her story. Unless you count the part where I killed her.”
    R.J. Anderson

  • #23
    John Green
    “Life tries to crush her, but only succeeded in making a diamond.”
    John Green



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