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writing hair fire
Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out the window, teasing my hair, sitting down to write, writing nothing, writing something and tearing it up... Charles Dickens
writing numbers gold
Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither. Charles Caleb Colton
writing language nonsense
It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.
writing men profound
He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
writing faces privacy
The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.
writing men three
There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it.
writing should-have fire
We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire.
writing self hints
The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author's that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.
writing two style
When I meet with any persons who write obscurely or converse confusedly, I am apt to suspect two things; first, that such persons do not understand themselves; and secondly, that they are not worthy of being understood by others.
meditation-practice world way
Meditation practice is regarded as a good and in fact excellent way to overcome warfare in the world; our own warfare as well as greater warfare. Chogyam Trungpa
meditation-practice mind sitting
In the practice of sitting meditation you relate to your daily life all the time. Meditation practice brings our neuroses to the surface rather than hiding them at the bottom of our minds. It enables us to relate to our lives as something workable.
meditation-practice listening divine
Meditation is listening to the divine within Edgar Cayce
meditation-practice mind quiet
To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still. Jiddu Krishnamurti
meditation-practice rewards deep-meditation
It's tapping into something so deep that when I reap the rewards, I do not even know I'm reaping them. It's a more overall kinda thing. Eva Mendes
meditation-practice ledges waterfalls
With meditation I found a ledge above the waterfall of my thoughts. Mary Pipher
meditation-practice enlightenment events
The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at extraordinary times, to be of the present, nothing-but-in-the-present, to bear this mindfulness of now into each event of ordinary life. Peter Matthiessen
meditation-practice meditation-and-yoga trying
Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already. Pema Chodron
meditation-practice silence understanding
Meditation is not passive sitting in silence. It is sitting in awareness, free from distraction, and realizing the clear understanding that arises from concentration. Nhat Hanh
i-have-learned novel deals
I have learned a great deal from novels. Some of it is even true. Dean Koontz
i-have-learned
I have failed so much, but I have learned so much more in life from my failures than my successes. Bethenny Frankel
i-have-learned fear-god ifs
I have learned that if you fear God, you have no one else to fear. Oliver Cromwell
i-have-learned timetables
But I have learned that you can't just create your own timetable and will it to come true. Emily Giffin
i-have-learned traveller
I have learned that the swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot. Henry David Thoreau
i-have-learned delegates
I have learned to delegate. Gwen Stefani
i-have-learned surviving
I have learned the power of surviving. Philippa Gregory
i-have-learned admission grows
I have learned, as I wrote, that history must be discovered, not declared. It's an admission that one grows in life. Henry A. Kissinger
i-have-learned betray pencils
As a writer, I have learned that each time I pick up my pencil I betray someone. Terry Tempest Williams