“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” -Lao Tzu

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” -Lao Tzu

Julie’s Feedback:

While in my Kundalini Yoga class at Yoga Soup the other day, my yoga teacher asked the important question, “Is it for your highest good?”  If the answer is no (in regards to anything in your life), you should stop and take a step in a different direction.

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” -Nelson Mandela

“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” -Andy Warhol

“…no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing.” -Julia Child, My Life in France

“The best time for planning a book is while you’re doing the dishes.” -Agatha Christie

“Love.  Fall in love and stay in love.  Write only what you love, and love what you write.  The key word is love.  You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.” -Ray Bradbury

“The creative adult is the child who has survived.” -Ursula K. Le Guin

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” -Lao Tzu

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” -Mother Teresa

“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.” -Ernest Hemingway

“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.” -Anton Chekhov

“There is creative reading as well as creative writing.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” -Maya Angelou

“You fail only if you stop writing.” -Ray Bradbury

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” ―Ernest Hemingway

“Every writer I know has trouble writing.” -Joseph Heller

“It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night like a rich jewel in an Ethiope’s ear.” -William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, 1.5

“I’m probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14-to meet women.”

-Billy Joel

“The pen is the tongue of the mind.”

-Miguel de Cervantes