
"Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart ." —William Wordsworth
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you." —Maya Angelou
"When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen." —Ernest Hemingway
"This above all: to thine own self be true." —William Shakespeare
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will." —Jane Eyre
"If your life were a book and you were the author, how would you want your story to go? That's the question that changed my life forever." —Amy Purdy
"Since you're not out to prove your genius, you can write with honesty. Readers respond to stories told from truth." —Lucie Frost (How The Hell Did I Not Know That?)
"Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside." —Mark Twain
"Grief is the price we pay for love." —Queen Elizabeth II
"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved." —George Macdonald
"a hand, a look and a nice pan. (coup de main, coup d'oeil et belle casserole.)" —Charles de Leusse
"There is no meal so delicious than one seasoned by hunger."
"A variation of the proverb:A variation of the proverb:
"Hunger is the best sauce or seasoning." —Socrates
"There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense."
—Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)
“Life passes. Then comes the depression. That feeling that you’ll never be right again. The fear that these outbreaks will become more familiar, or worse, never go away. You’re so tired from fighting that you start to listen to all the little lies your brain tells you. The ones that say you’re a drain on your family. The ones that say that if you were stronger or better this wouldn’t be happening to you.”
—Jenny Lawson (Furiously Happy)