Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. ~Henry David Thoreau

   My favorite. He lived in a remote cabin, in solitude. Like a hermit. On purpose. I love that. I love him.

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To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all. ~Lord Byron
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To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. ~ Elbert Hubbard
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Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. ~William Wordsworth
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No one is useless in the world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else.

~Charles Dickens

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The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof shit detector. This is the writer’s radar and all great writers have had it. ~Ernest Hemingway

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Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.

~Maya Angelou

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May I have the courage today To live the life that I would love, To postpone my dreams no longer But do at last what I came here for And waste my heart on fear no more. ~John O’Donohue
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I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

~Joan Didion

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No price is too high for the privilege of owning yourself ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.  ~Friedrich Nietzsche