Brenda Baker Favourite Quotes Collection

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Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
Hosea BallouHappiness 150
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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.
J. Robert OppenheimerHappiness 352
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Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
Mother Teresainspirational 853
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Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark TwainKindness 222
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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
Muhammad IqbalMotivation 300
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Forgiveness is a reflection of loving yourself enough to move on.
Steve MaraboliInspiration 59
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I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!
Mark TwainDecisions 1,165
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Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.
Maria MontessoriImagination 244
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You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Mahatma GandhiHumanity 245
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No poems can live long or please that are written by water-drinkers.
HoraceWriting 39
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Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. Its a way of understanding it.
Lloyd AlexanderWriting 58
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With 60 staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and a definite hardening of the paragraphs.
James ThurberWriting 51
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When your characters start to rebel at what you're trying to make them do, or refuse to say the words you're trying to cram into their mouths, that's when you know you've done it right.
Ken StarkWriting 56
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It is the tale, not he who tells it.
Stephen KingWriting 77
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You think writing a book is hard? Wait until you give it to someone to read.
Ken StarkWriting 62
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What keeps me writing is wanting to know what happens next.
Brant LandonWriting 68
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Writers, be patient with your characters, they are doing the best they can with the world you have given them.
Brant LandonWriting 66
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I was sorry to hear my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I am not feeling very well myself.
Mark TwainWriting 131
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The pen to a writer is like a cigarette to a smoker; they need it to take the edge off.
Kellie ElmoreWriting 86
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Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
Stephen Kingwriting 266
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