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Toni's Talk: When you invest in yourself, you have instant credibility with your biggest critic...you! As soon as you let doubt creep in---you lose that investment. Make a daily commitment to assess your worth with positive affirmations and watch your investment grow.
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affirmations
c-toni-graham
ya-author
inspirational
commitment
author
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C.Toni Graham |
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Maybe 'Okay' will be our 'always'...
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kiss
stars
romantic
romance
inspire
love
inspirational
fangirl
lovely-quote
okay
thefaultinourstars
cancer
augustus-waters
hazel-grace-lancaster
john-green
author
green
tfios
the-fault-in-our-stars
john
fault
always
book
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John Green |
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May my heart be kind, my mind fierce, and my spirit brave.
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fantasy
inspirational
author
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Kate Forsyth |
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"In the shower today I tried to think about the best advice I'd ever been given by another writer. There was something that someone said at my first Milford, about using style as a covering, but sooner or later you would have to walk naked down the street, that was useful... And then I remembered. It was Harlan Ellison about a decade ago. He said, "Hey. Gaiman. What's with the stubble? Every time I see you, you're stubbly. What is it? Some kind of English fashion statement?" "Not really." "Well? Don't they have razors in England for Chrissakes?" "If you must know, I don't like shaving because I have a really tough beard and sensitive skin. So by the time I've finished shaving I've usually scraped my face a bit. So I do it as little as possible."
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author
neil-gaiman
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Neil Gaiman |
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"In my younger days dodging the draft, I somehow wound up in the Marine Corps. There's a myth that Marine training turns baby-faced recruits into bloodthirsty killers. Trust me, the Marine Corps is not that efficient. What it does teach, however, is a lot more useful. The Marine Corps teaches you how to be miserable. This is invaluable for an artist. Marines love to be miserable. Marines derive a perverse satisfaction in having colder chow, crappier equipment, and higher casualty rates than any outfit of dogfaces, swab jockeys, or flyboys, all of whom they despise. Why? Because these candy-asses don't know how to be miserable. The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for the duration on a diet of isolation, rejection, self-doubt, despair, ridicule, contempt, and humiliation. The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable. He has to take pride in being more miserable than any soldier or swabbie or jet jockey. Because this is war, baby. And war is hell." Page 68"
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perseverance
creative-block
marine
writers-block
author
focus
artist
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Steven Pressfield |
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Writers will often find themselves steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion.
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writer
writing
e-b-white
eb-white
strunk-and-white
strunk-white
the-elements-of-style
william-strunk-jr
author
authors
writing-advice
write
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William Strunk Jr. |
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A writer's age at the time of a work's composition is never irrelevant.
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writer
author
relevance
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Margaret Atwood |
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I wrote this book to show you that a cure is entirely possible because I've seen it happen over and over again.
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sobriety
freedom
life
philosophy
wisdom
alcoholism-cure
amazon
bookstore
end-the-cycle
great-authors
great-books
kindle
new-book
nook
cure-addiction
author
drug-addiction
alcohol-addiction-treatment
drug-addiction-treatment
addiction-free
alcohol-addiction
addiction-and-recovery
passages-ventura
passages-malibu
addiction-cure
alcohol-abuse
chris-prentiss
drug-abuse
sober
book
self-help
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Chris Prentiss |
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Each time you turn your life issues over to God and allow Him to lead, you build trust in Him.
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time
trust
god
life
build
issues
turn
author
lead
over
christian
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Elizabeth George |
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Whether the underlying cause of your dependency is a chemical imbalance, unresolved events from the past, beliefs you hold that are inconsistent with what is true, an inability to cope with current conditions, or a combination of these four causes, know this: not only are all the causes of dependency within you, but all the solutions are within you as well.
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writer
depression
writing
books
author
los-angeles-rehab
rehab-center
holistic-treatment
malibu-rehab
alcohol-rehab
drug-rehab
holistic-health
passages-ventura
substance-abuse
passages-malibu
addiction-cure
addiction-treatment-center
alcohol-abuse
chris-prentiss
drug-abuse
quotes
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Chris Prentiss |
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Now, practically even better news than that of short assignments is the idea of shitty first drafts. All good writers write them.
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writer
writing
first-drafts
author
write
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Anne Lamott |