Goahead Quotes & Sayings

Like writing, publishing is not easy. No endeavor worth pursuing is. Discomfort and fear are easy outs - and ultimately dead ends. They are responses to keep us locked in the role of victim. Empowerment is encapsulated in the written word. Writing about trauma is more than simply documenting experience - it's about illuminating life on earth. It's about transforming tragedy into art, and hoping that somehow that piece of art may help someone else who's gone through something unbearable and who doesn't yet see that there is truly a light at the end of the tunnel. . . . It's about transcendence. It's about where we go from here." Tracy Strauss — Rossandra White

Parents who have been successful in acquiring more often have a difficult time saying no to the demands of overindulged children. Their children run the risk of not learning important values like hard work, delayed gratification, honesty, and compassion. — H. David Burton

There is no such thing as happy music. — Franz Schubert

What do you think? she asked, pouting her lips attempting to imitate a model . . . or a duck. I wasn't sure which. — Jamie McGuire

I have no idea what to expect I have no idea what my life will be like in this new place and I'm being nailed in the stomach by every exquisite embellishment, every lavish accessory, every superfluous painting, molding, lighting, coloring of this building. I hope the whole thing catches fire. — Tahereh Mafi

Adolescence is the same tragedy being performed again and again. The only things that change are the stage props. — Lindsey Leavitt

If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot. — James Joyce

You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Every person has a longing to be significant, to make a contribution, to be a part of something noble and purposeful. — John C. Maxwell

Your actions and approach with what you have, will showcase to others what you would be able to do with more. — Loren Weisman