Friday Fun is a group post from the writers of the NHWN blog. Each week, we’ll pose and answer a different, writing-related question. We hope you’ll join in by providing your answer in the comments.
QUESTION: What’s your favorite quote … this week?
Susan Nye:
Life is short. Wear red shoes.
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Before I hit the water in the sprint triathlon
Lisa J. Jackson: The person who starts the race is different from
After I completed the sprint triathlon
the person who finishes the race.
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Deborah Lee Luskin: “This too shall pass.” – in reference to the current heat wave.
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Wendy Thomas: “So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?” Harriet Beech Stowe
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Jamie Wallace: Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
- Brandan Gill
Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbors, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst. (Samuel Butler)
‘Grief is like peeling an onion – there’s lots of layers and you cry a lot’. A bit morbid, but I very recently lost a family member and it’s the first quote that made me smile.
Katharine Hepburn – “If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.”
Thanks Brandi – love the great Kate. …S.
“Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.”
- Mark Victor Hansen -
Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you’ll understand what little chance you have in changing others. ~Jacob M. Braude
love red shoes
Thanks! … have a great weekend – S.
What other people think of me is none of my business.
YES!!!!
Love it! – S.
God grant that you will choose your good self thereby mastering yur evil self
This is paradise, I’m tellin ya.
My higher power defers to organized crime to protect me on this planet.
“Among them, but not of them.” – Lord Byron
Everyone and most everything has a story waiting to be discovered, We just have to dig it out.
Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it badly. Paulo Coelho
“No organization can depend on genius; the supply is scarce and unreliable. It is the test of an organization to make ordinary human beings perform better than they seem capable of, to bring out whatever strength there is in its members, and use each man’s strength to help all the others perform.” Peter F. Drucker
The above quote reminds me of the ideas we share, etc. And I love this little gem: “A good time for laughing is when you can.”
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Words I live by (lol) : Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
Jules Renard.
I love quotes and can’t stop with just two. This is my new description of myself:
I’m an “introverted extrovert.” That comes from J.D. Trafford’s book “No Time To Run,” which is an ebook that is free from Amazon. I loved it.
Saranell – Interesting – I’m an extroverted introvert … Take care, S.
Actually, I got it backwards. We’re the same.
I have 2 favourite quotes.
Having been involved with charities for most of my adult life I observed that there are two types of people in the sector – those who are involved and those who are committed. This quote illustrates the difference ~ Imagine a cooked breakfast of bacon and eggs, the hen was involved but the pig was committed.
Then a silly one that reminds me that we need to recognise our limitations
~ If at first you don’t succeed, sky diving is not for you!
But the one I live by is from Brother Roger of Taize ~ If each night in our lives could be like Christmas Night, a night illuminated from within.
http://www.taize.fr
Bob Dylan – “Strike another match, go start anew”
“Quality of knowledge is dependent not upon the capacity of the object to be known, but upon the ability of the know to know.” – Boethius from The Consolation of Philosphy
(Roughly translated into modern slang: “If you’re stupid, you’re SOL”)
(I repeat this one to myself when I’m driving, usually fter being cut off or nearly hit by texters)
For writing inspiration and to remind me of what I should be focusing on, this is tacked above my desk:
“When one has begun to write, the hardest thing is to be sincere. Essential to mull over that idea and to define artistic sincerity….the word must never precede the idea. Or else: the word must always be necessitated by the idea. It must be irresistible and inevitable; and the same is true of the sentence, of the whole work of art. And for the artist’s whole life, for his vocation must be irresistible.
-Andre Gide-
Just wanted to let you know that they did receive my article. All we do now is wait… That’s the hard part.
Very good, saranell. That’s all there is to do – our best, then submit, then breathe and on to the next thing! (Until it’s time to revise of course! LOL)
oops – “knowER to know” is how that first one should have gone…TYPO
It is never to late to express your love and compassion.Do not grieve or regret the past.The past is over.Begin right now.
step out of your own way.. and you will be able to move forward…
Thanks to everyone for sharing. What a wonderful, diverse group we are … Susan
Sorry I am so late with this… “Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.” ~ George Orwell (Just feeling this one at the moment!)
Not a shred of evidence that life is serious? Who said that, I wonder! Fear and tears and love and death. Is that enough? The man or woman who said that about life is no thinker. I get the impression they’re very sarcastic, which as they say is the lowest form of wit.
listen to understand, speak to be understood
“A Poet can survive anything…. but a misprint.”
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“He who laughs last didn’t get it.”
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I think if I had to pick one others these entertaining quotations, it would definitely be the red shoes! My dance shoes are red.
Sometimes life is what you do when your waiting for children to grow.
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