Good friendships take intentionality; you can’t ignore them and expect them to be healthy.
If you’re always too busy for your friends, you will have shallow friendships.
Amy Weatherly is an American author who remains active with writing and her down-to-earth blog (amyweatherly.com).
Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real. (Taken from AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS)
We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones. (Taken from 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA)
Jules Verne (1828-1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. Several of his novels became classics, and two of his finest works are listed in the quotes above. His writings were highly skilled in their technical aspects, even though his vision was years ahead of his lifetime.
War doesn’t determine who’s right. War determines who remains.
When man begins to think that he is responsible for writing the script of the world, he forgets the forces that dream up our reality.
Rebecca (R. F.) Kuang (born 1996) is a Chinese-American writer. Much of her writing is filled with fantasy themes, but sometimes the images become more than real. Both of the above quotes come her book, THE POPPY WAR (published in 2018).
Friendship is about real, no-filter-needed life.
Friendship involves efforts on both parts. On your part. On theirs. Make your peace with this truth right now or you will forever be disappointed.
Amy Weatherly is an American author who remains active with writing and her down-to-earth blog (amyweatherly.com).
The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
Ralph Ellison (1914-1994) was an American author who is best known for INVISIBLE MAN, which earned a National Book Award in 1953.
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story.
No story is innocent. To tell is to put oneself in danger. To remain silent is to isolate yourself.
Boris Cyrulnik (born 1937) is a French physician and writer. He has written several books about the science of psychology. As a child, he survived the Holocaust when his family was captured.
What happens when people open their hearts? They get better.
It’s hard to tell the difference between sea and sky, between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart.
Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.
When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand.
TV land update
“Big Brother” resumes taping—
Renamed “Quarantined”
Monday morning class
Readin’, Ritin’, Rithmetic—
At home, nothing new!
Traveling back home
Nothing beats Mom’s home cooking—
Filled with warmest love
Big Sky Buckeye 