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“In my experience, self-hatred is the dominant malaise crippling Christians and stifling their growth in the Holy Spirit.”
― Brennan Manning, Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

“These circumstances are called CONFLICTS. What we do or don’t do when we face conflict is the engine of Storytelling.”
― Shawn Coyne, The Story Grid: What Good Editors Know

“So if your Story doesn’t change your lead character irrevocably from beginning to end, no one will deeply care about it.”
― Shawn Coyne, The Story Grid: What Good Editors Know

“Start before you’re ready.”
― Steven Pressfield

“School is one thing. Education is another. The two don’t always overlap. Whether you’re in school or not, it’s always your job to get yourself an education.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“Stories are not complicated. They are, in fact, deceptively simple. But like anything simple, they are difficult to create.”
― Brian McDonald, Invisible Ink

“In the beginning the Universe was created.
This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.”
― Friedrich W. Nietzsche

“A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both.”
― L.P. Jacks