These are some quotations compiled by Nan Fisher. Read them carefully and pick three you like or feel identified with,
and two you disagree with or don’t like.
Write about each non-stop during 5 minutes.
"It's ok. You don't need to care." Mason, age 5
"Mama? Why did we just pass a sign that says, Do Not Pass?" Emma Fischer, age 7, riding in the car
"All of life is creating." Dylan Smith, age 9
"Touch is the meaning of being human." Andrea Dworkin
"Although to be driven back upon oneself is an uneasy affair at best, rather like trying to cross a border with borrowed credentials, it seems to me now the one condition necessary to the beginnings of real self-respect." Joan Didion
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." Anais Nin
"You do not have to justify your physical existence. Your existence is justification enough." Jerry & Esther Hicks
"Your thorns are the best part of you." Marianne Moore
"The sight of a cage is only frightening to the bird that has once been caught." Rachel Field
"Silence is where the victims dwell." Nelly Sachs
"Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony." Elizabeth Fishel
"I'm five-feet-four, but I always feel six-foot-one, tall and strong." Yvette Mimieux
"Men and women, women and men. It will never work." Erica Jong
"Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been." Mark Twain
"If you are doing your best, you will not have time to worry about failure." Robert Hillyer
"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another." George Eliot
"Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional." Roger Crawford
"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live." Mark Twain
"Not all who wander are lost." JRR Tolkien
"One must have chaos in ones self in order to give birth to a dancing star." Nietzsche
"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." Francis Bacon
"Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines." Amy Tan
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hello! cecilia how are you?.
It would be better if you change the colour of the "quotations for inspiration" because its gets difficult to read. thanks =)
hi! i've just read this post , you made me think a lot.. maybe you can pass to my blog and check out what i've written ;)i hope you like it =]
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