Anali's First Amendment

"is there anything, apart from a really good chocolate cream pie and receiving a large unexpected..."

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:02:44 -0500

“is there anything, apart from a really good chocolate cream pie and receiving a large unexpected check in the post, to beat finding yourself at large in a foreign city on a fair spring evening, loafing along unfamiliar streets in the long shadows of a lazy sunset, pausing to gaze in shop windows or at some church or lovely square or tranquil stretch of quayside, hesitating at street corners to decide whether that cheerful and homey restaurant you will remember fondly for years is likely to lie down this street or that one? i just love it. i could spend my life arriving each evening in a new city.”

- Bill Bryson via Brian Ferry

"Dare yourself to believe in your creativity, wherever it may lead you. Trust that where it leads, is..."

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:45:16 -0500

“Dare yourself to believe in your creativity, wherever it may lead you.
Trust that where it leads, is exactly where you’re supposed to be.
Your authentic self knows where you’re headed.
Don’t wrestle with Spirit, collaborate with it.”

- Sarah Ban Breathnach via Julie Valentine

"Amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic."

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 12:00:36 -0500

“Amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic.”

- via Sigrid Olsen

"I eat ice cream most nights of the week, because I’ve found that doing so is one of the keys..."

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:31:38 -0500

“I eat ice cream most nights of the week, because I’ve found that doing so is one of the keys to a happy life.”

- Anna Torborg

"Typically, people overwhelm themselves with tasks in their eagerness to make a change successfully...."

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:41:21 -0500

“Typically, people overwhelm themselves with tasks in their eagerness to make a change successfully. But that’s a mistake. Instead, they should take the time up front to figure out the one and only thing that will have the highest impact and then focus 100% of their effort on that one thing.”

- Peter Bregman

"All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know."

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:42:58 -0500

“All you have to do is write one true sentence.
Write the truest sentence you know.”

- Ernest Hemingway

"I recommend you watch ‘Cinema Paradiso’, read Joseph Campbell, ask questions, give and take, look up..."

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:02:00 -0500

“I recommend you watch ‘Cinema Paradiso’, read Joseph Campbell, ask questions, give and take, look up at the sky a lot. None of us really has the ability to understand our path until its over. Keep on rockin’ in the free world.”

- Katherine Dunn

"If you pursue your greatest passion, chances are you will not only become very good at whatever that..."

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:33:54 -0500

“If you pursue your greatest passion, chances are you will not only become very good at whatever that passion is, but by being good, you will also love what you are doing, and probably make a sufficient amount of money to live very comfortably.”

- Robert Parker

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Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:29:40 -0500

"Try very hard not to judge your work by what the market is buying at the time. It’s the killer of..."

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:45:06 -0500

“Try very hard not to judge your work by what the market is buying at the time. It’s the killer of all art.”

- Laurie Wagner

"Find happiness and contentment in your work. Life is short. My extensive research indicates that we..."

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:01:46 -0500

“Find happiness and contentment in your work. Life is short. My extensive research indicates that we are all going to die anyway. Do your best. Follow your heart. When you win, celebrate. When you lose, just start over the next day.”

- Marshall Goldsmith

"You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t. You take the action, and the insight..."

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:31:58 -0400

“You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don’t think your way into becoming yourself. … Every single day I try to figure out something I no longer agree to do.”

- Anne Lamott

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Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:59:59 -0400

"And that’s the deal – when a passion is pursued I need to release the idea that I’ll wake up with..."

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 01:46:54 -0400

“And that’s the deal – when a passion is pursued I need to release the idea that I’ll wake up with bluebirds tying ribbons in my hair and sunbeams streaming through my windows. Pursuing a passion is work. It is effort and time and being willing to take on more than is easy to handle. It is, in the simplest terms, a job.”

- Christine Mason Miller

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Sun, 11 Oct 2009 01:48:00 -0400

"The bud stands for all things, even for those things that don’t flower, for everything..."

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 01:24:46 -0400

“The bud
stands for all things,
even for those things that don’t flower,
for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing;
though sometimes it is necessary
to reteach a thing its loveliness,
to put a hand on its brow
of the flower
and retell it in words and in touch
it is lovely
until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing.”

- Galway Kinnell

"Success is when you know you reached a goal you set your heart on, no matter how large or small that..."

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:13:03 -0400

“Success is when you know you reached a goal you set your heart on, no matter how large or small that goal is. It doesn’t have to be a million dollars in the bank, or appearing on the front cover of Writer’s Digest. It can be a small check for a short article, or being a finalist in one of Writer’s Digest’s contests. Every time you feel you’ve achieved something, that’s success.”

- Ruby Bayan

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Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:55:09 -0400

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

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:11:06 -0400

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”

- Anais Nin

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Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:49:33 -0400