Daysprings Enon Quotes & Sayings

Surely it is an odd way to spend your life - sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand, hour after hour, day after day, year after year, struggling to put words on pieces of paper in order to give birth to what does not exist, except in your head. Why on earth would anyone want to do such a thing? The only answer I have ever been able to come up with is: because you have to, because you have no choice. — Paul Auster

heavy locket that none of them could open, — J.K. Rowling

He had such a lovely smile when he was using it for good and not evil — Karina Halle

I've got a very peculiar sort of fame, based on being on the telly. It doesn't mean you have the lifestyle people expect. — Ian Hislop

I'm so used to being misunderstood. — Jamaica Kincaid

One of the truest tests of spiritual maturity is seeing the miraculous in the monotonous. — Mark Batterson

The sky didn't wonder where it was. — Cheryl Strayed

Grace is savage and must be savage in order to be perfect. — Charles Warren Stoddard

But I also assert that most of us don't look for miracles, don't recognize them for what they really are, and don't really believe them to be of divine origin even if their miraculous nature is noticed. — Mary C. Neal

Halloween: the day each year when strangers give you even more specific reasons to dislike them based on what they are wearing. — Demetri Martin

Journalists ask me all the time, 'Akshay, do you believe in the numbers game?' My standard response: 'I can't count, that's why I have producers and accountants who calculate for me. As long as I have them in my life, I don't need to worry about numbers!' — Akshay Kumar

Questions are great, but only if you know the answers. If you ask questions and the answers surprise you, you look silly. — Laurell K. Hamilton

I think place and time for me is often a matter of convenience, something I can use to another end rather than something I'm trying to define because it's somehow fascinating to me in itself. It's more what the place can do for the larger goals I have for the work. — Alice McDermott

The opposite of play is not work - the opposite of play is depression." He explains, "Respecting our biologically programmed need for play can transform work. It can bring back excitement and newness to our job. Play helps us deal with difficulties, provides a sense of expansiveness, promotes mastery of our craft, and is an essential part of the creative process. Most important, true play that comes from our own inner needs and desires is the only path to finding lasting joy and satisfaction in our work. In the long run, work does not work without play."2 — Brene Brown