Bactine Quotes & Sayings

The geysers and hot springs of the Yellowstone are another proof of recent volcanic activity. — Ellsworth Huntington

... it's not the truth about others that will set you free, but the truth about yourself. — Louise Penny

The more authentic you become, the more genuine in your expression, particularly regarding personal experiences and even self-doubts, the more people can relate to your expression and the safer it makes them feel to express themselves. That expression, in turn, feeds on the other person's spirit, and genuine creative empathy takes place, producing new insights and learnings and a sense of excitement and adventure that keeps the process going. — Stephen Covey

I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world. — Don DeLillo

If you love the good thing vitally, enough to give up for it all that one must give up, then you must hate the cheap thing just as hard. I tell you, there is such a thing as creative hate!
A contempt that drives you through fire, makes you risk everything and lose everything, makes you a long sight better than you ever knew you could be. — Willa Cather

I took a correspondence course with a guy at Ohio University. He gave me ten exercises, and one of them resulted in the story "Bactine." It pleased me a lot more than anything else I'd ever done, so I kept messing around and by the time I got to Ohio State I'd written maybe eight stories. — Donald Ray Pollock

Loving Others Starts with Loving Myself — Wayne Dyer

This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love. — Peter Kreeft

I think of her as a silly girl who's just fooling around at art school, too dumb to get into university, although I don't make judgments like this about the boys. — Margaret Atwood