Timlynn Quotes & Sayings

Writing a book is a blood sport. If it doesn't hurt when you're done, you're probably doing something wrong. — Kevis Hendrickson

Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to. — Robert Henri

God seeks to walk with you along the journey. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The difference between the "natural" individuation process, which runs its course unconsciously, and the one which is consciously realized, is tremendous. In the first case consciousness nowhere intervenes; the end remains as dark as the beginning. In the second case so much darkness comes to light that the personality is permeated with light, and consciousness necessarily gains in scope and insight. The encounter between conscious and unconscious has to ensure that the light which shines in the darkness is not only comprehended by the darkness, but comprehends it. The filius solis et lunae (the son of the Sun and Moon) is the possible result as well as the symbol of this union of opposites. It is the alpha and omega of the process, the mediator and intermedius. "It has a thousand names," say the alchemists, meaning that the source from which the individuation process rises and the goal toward which it aims is nameless, ineffable. — C. G. Jung

To develop patience, you need someone who willfully hurts you. Such people give us real opportunities to practice tolerance. They test our inner strength in a way that even our guru cannot. Basically, patience protects us from being discouraged. — Dalai Lama

Amazing, isn't it, that our prayers ... can move the very heart of God who created the universe? — Joni Eareckson Tada

Stories turn anonymous strangers into people who matter. — Paul Bloom

If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty. — Charles Stross

In 2009, at the height of the global economic crisis, it was clear that we were seeing something new: the impacts of the crisis were flowing across borders at unprecedented velocity. — Ban Ki-moon

I asked my body if it was going to die or not from AIDS. And it said 'no.' I sort of paid attention to that. — Edmund White

The future is unwritten. there are best case scenarios. There are worst-case scenarios. both of them are great fun to write about if you' re a science fiction novelist, but neither of them ever happens in the real world. What happens in the real world is always a sideways-case scenario. World-changing marvels to us, are only wallpaper to our children. — Bruce Sterling

Ah darling, goodness, I think, never brought any one out. Goodness, when it's real, precisely, rather keeps people IN. — Henry James