Favorite Quotations ~  Perspectives, 5 Ten Poems to Change Your Life

"IF you look up, there are no limits." ~ Japanese Proverb

Daring to Begin, July 27, 2005

Whenever you see darkness, there is extraordinary opportunity for the light to burn brighter. ~ Bono

If your project doesn't work, look for the part that you didn't think was important. ~ Arthur Bloch

Never write about a place until you're away from it, because that gives you perspective. ~ Ernest Hemingway

Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth. ~ Simone Weil

They say they climb mountains because they are there. I wonder if it would astound them to know that the very same reason is why the rest of us go around them. ~ S. Omar Barker

My barn having burned down, I can now see the moon. ~ Zen Saying

If you can't exorcise the darkness, work it, and keep that love ignition going, going, going. ~ Paul A. Toth

Liabilities are just assets in hiding. ~ Mark Victor Hansen

Change yourself and your work will seem different. ~ Norman Vincent Peale

Accept that some days you're the pigeon and some days you're the statue. ~ Roger C. Anderson

A block of granite that was an obstacle in the path of the weak becomes a stepping stone in the path of the strong. ~ Thomas Carlyle

If the sky falls, hold up your hands. ~ Spanish Proverb

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