Category Archives: Inspirational Quote

Time

“If you don’t have time to do it right, how will you find the time to do it again?” – Unknown

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The camera is…

‘The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.’ ~ Dorothea Lange I’ve noticed the same is true about writing. The more I write and study fiction and storytelling, the more I learn how to … Continue reading

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Viktor Frankl says…

“What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task.” – Viktor E. Frankl, Holocaust survivor, author of Man’s Search for Meaning

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Ludwig Wittgenstein said…

“Yes, a key can lie forever in the place where the locksmith left it, and never be used to open the lock the master forged it for.” Source: CV, p. 54, 1946 Via: Iain McGilchrist lecture

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Rumi says…

What was whispered to the rose To break it open Last night Was whispered to my heart. Rumi

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Thomas Merton on Art

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” – Thomas Merton

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Writing is…

“Writing is a deep-sea dive. You need hours just to get into it: down, down, down. If you’re called back to the surface every couple of minutes by an email, you can’t ever get back down. I have a great … Continue reading

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Having a grievance…

“Having a grievance is like drinking poison and thinking it will kill your enemy.” ~ Nelson Mandela

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Worry

“Worry is like a rocking chair–it gives you something to do but it doesn’t get you anywhere.” – Unknown

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Rilke: I want to beg you…

“…I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written … Continue reading

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