#ours

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination. ↗

— Janet Frame

#border #cathedrals #expedition #factories #going

Take a walk through the garden of forgiveness and pick a flower of forgiveness for everything you have ever done. When you get to that time that is now, make a full and total forgiveness of your entire life and smile at the bouquet in your hands because it truly is beautiful. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#forgive-yourself #forgiven #forgiveness #beauty

Knowing yourself and expressing it is hip. I think knowing yourself is the real journey, for me anyway. ↗

— David Schwimmer

#expressing #hip #i #i think #journey

Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can. ↗

— Christa McAuliffe

#far #push #reach #you #yourself

Take a second look, you might find that I am stronger. Take a second look, you might find that you are stronger. Imagination, inspiration. It's only fair that I tell you, I plan on leaving here tonight with my pride. I'm proud to be I'm proud to be me. ↗

— Sara Quin

#i-tell-you #only-fair #proud #proud-to-be-me #take-a-second-look

You can't be yourself within jealousy. ↗

— Toba Beta

#jealousy #jealousy

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#amuse #children #instruction #like #live

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be. ↗

— May Sarton

#frightening #however #may #ourselves #prove

If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#life #self-determination #life

Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and hours, weeks and weeks, of conscious thought - whereas short stories slip out painlessly in a few days. ↗

— Eric Brown

#conscious #conscious thought #days #few #find