* Writers' Spark * Every story has to start somewhere *: New post on TheMillionWords.Net: Paying attention to personal sensory and emotional experience

Sunday, March 5, 2017

New post on TheMillionWords.Net: Paying attention to personal sensory and emotional experience

My new Million Words blog post is available here:

Don’t just ride the rollercoaster–Pay attention to how it makes you feel!

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Favorite Quotes

You have to start somewhere in order to end up somewhere good!
~Margaret S. McGraw

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Be kind, be brave, be fierce, be love.
~Laura Anne Gilman

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Some things in life cannot be fixed. They can only be carried.
~Megan Devine

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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
~Mark Twain

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Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars.
~Casey Kasem

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Sometimes we lay aside our own troubles when we wipe away another's tears.
~Seneca

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When opportunity puckers up, lean in for a smooch. Only a fool tells the angels to come back tomorrow.
~Steven Barnes

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Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
~ Dalai Lama

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We’re fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.
~ Japanese proverb

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No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
~ Aesop

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Everything flows, nothing stays.
~ Heraclitus

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Balance, always a balance. Work to give life purpose, play to lift the heart, music to soothe the spirit, love to give one strength. One cannot ask for more.
~ Pelzmantel, K.A. Laity

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Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.
~ 1st part paraphrased from J.M. Barrie, author of Peter Pan; 2nd part from either Plato or (more likely) Philo of Alexandria

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If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish ulterior motives... be kind anyway

If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies... succeed anyway

If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you... be honest and frank anyway

What you may spend years building, someone may destroy overnight... build anyway

If you find serenity and happiness, people may be jealous... be happy anyway

The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow... do good anyway

Give the best you have, and it may never be enough... give the best you have anyway
~ Mother Teresa

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Sunday, March 5, 2017

New post on TheMillionWords.Net: Paying attention to personal sensory and emotional experience

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