“The whole idea of revenge and punishment is a childish day-dream. Properly speaking, there is no such thing as revenge. Revenge is an act which you want to commit when you are powerless and because you are powerless: as soon as the sense of impotence is removed, the desire evaporates also.”—George Orwell, “Revenge is Sour” (1945)
Be More Concerned With Your Character Than Your Reputation. Your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. No matter the storm, when you are with God, there's always a rainbow waiting. Leave gentle fingerprints on the soul of another for the angels to read. I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. -- Author unknown to me.
"It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help." - Judith Martin (Miss Manners)
Frank Lloyd Wright - "The truth is more important than the facts."
Carl Sagan - "In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe."
Harry S Truman - "If you cannot convince them, confuse them."
Intellectuals solve problems. Geniuses prevent them. – Albert Einstein
"The desire to write grows with writing." Erasmus.
"Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain." Elie Wiesel.
"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say." Anais Nin.
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