FAVORITE QUOTES AND MUSINGS

“There are two ways to live your life - one is as though nothing is a miracle, the other is as though everything is a miracle.”
Albert Einstein

“Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it."
Mary Oliver

"Everyone needs goals."
Author Unknown

"If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster."
Isaac Asimov

“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away.”
Author Unknown

“Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.”
Mark Twain

“Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.”
Gloria Steinem

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
Carl Sagan

“We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
Joseph Campbell

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
William Wordsworth

"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass."
Anton Chekhov

“If you hear a voice within you saying, 'You are not a painter,' then by all means paint...and that voice will be silenced.”
Vincent Van Gogh

“Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.”
John Lennnon

“Give, give, give -- what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away? Of having stories if I don't tell them to others? Of having wealth if I don't share it? I don't intend to be cremated with any of it! It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.”
Isabel Allende

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