It Is In Things. Quotes

The greater the volume of thoughts you have to work with, the better the context you can create for developing options and trusting your choices.

When Bad People start doing Good things with bad motives

Burning fevers flee no swifter from your body if you toss under figured counterpanes and coverlets of crimson than if you must lie in rude homespun.

From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort and pleasure

I cannot help but wonder how many of us walk through our lives, day after day, feeling slightly broken and alone, surrounded all the time by others who feel exactly the same way.

Be confident enough to show your true self to the world.

A person has to be comfortable in his or her own skin.

There’s no point pretending to be someone or something we’re not.

We should be authentic: the ‘real deal’. Neither a clone nor mimic be.

I lose part of myself that day and I don't want to lose even more.

Shoddy work is not just shoddy work. It's a failure of love.

Unless you know the code, it has no meaning.

Enjoy the stillness, sweet snail! Savor the spring breeze while it still means something! Soon enough, like summer tempests your tears will come!

100: Live This Day as if It Were Your Last.

If the map doesn't agree with the ground the map is wrong

The world's a scary place these days. Grandpa, , you've seen worse things, haven't you? Please tell me the world has always been like this.

By looking to the Source, to the Creator of nature, we can remember how to navigate life organically, with less struggle, and less suffering.

Suffocation is a cruel way to go.

-to me, the future doesn't seem real. It's just this magical place where I can put my responsibilities so that I don't have to be scared while hurtling toward failure at right hundred miles per hour.

The object of your desire is not an object.

Love is a feeling that is imposed on you. You cannot be lazy

Within the mystery of death, love stands guard and waits, filling the moments that "are" with itself, so that the moments to come will never be empty, never devoid of someone so loved.

Just sit down and write! Me circa 2009

I am incognito

Never offer advice just to appear concerned.

The best advice is not to write what you know, it's to write what you like. Write the kind of story you like best- write the story you want to read.

I hope when people ask what you're going to do with your English and/or creative writing degree you'll say: ... Carry it with me, as I do everything that matters.

No. I don't. You don't always have to be who they want you to be, you know.

She was perhaps too young to realize that what she assumed was her love for [him] was actually a tentative, timorous, acceptance of herself.

To survive the daily bumps and bruises that come with living our lives, we all need a gentle and loving home both within and outside of ourselves.

Perfect should never be a goal. Perfect just happens if you let it.

If you don't change course - if you don't have something waiting for you, even if it's just to occupy you until you turn eighteen, you're not going to make it. You need to make a plan for next year.

A snake was never called by its name at night, because it would hear. It was called a string.

Ah, children of the sunlight and the gaslight, how little you know of the world in which you live!

Having a ‘taste for life’ is about knowing its various flavours and awaiting the next meal.

The only way to be productive is to realize we don't HAVE TO be productive. Our goal is to PLEASE God, not APPEASE God.

Certainly there is life and there is death, but even in death, if we look closely enough, we will find grace.

We have another chance to navigate, perhaps in a slightly different way than we did yesterday. We cannot go back. But we can learn.

I have a billion what-ifs and no way forward.

You ate my dog, you undead freak!”Hey! Watch the slander. I hear the acceptable term is ‘corporeallychallenged’ now. No need to be rude.

Since the fall of Man and the return of Magery and our older ways, most disputes were settled in a civilized manner: sword to the face, mace to the neck, acceptable societal situational handlers

The skies are haunted by that which it were madness to know

My brother, he says. My brother is dead."And again he asks me to kill him. One more time before he falls to his knees and sobs. And i get it. I do. Because i have a brother too.

Answers were always important, but they were seldom easy.

Wait awhile, and everything will change."~'Griblich

He was of the mold from which great men are made. Having said of anything 'Let it be done' he at once felt not only that it was accomplished, but that he had done it himself.

There are so many things to say

Experience will tell you if you need more of it.

Why should conversation always be so much more coherent than experience?

You’re going back?” asked Bod. Things that had been immutable were changing. “You’re really leaving? But. You’re my guardian.”