Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. ― Dr. Seuss

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No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. ― Booker T. Washington

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I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death! ― Anne Frank

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Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape. ― Bell Hooks

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The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.

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We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. – Winston Churchill

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The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than growing with them._ Bernard M. Baruch

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If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things. ― Henry David Thoreau

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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. ― George Burns

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What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring for the needy, loving your neighbor as yourself—will last into God’s future. These activities are not simply ways of making the present life a little less beastly, a little more bearable, until the day when we leave it behind altogether. They are part of what we may call building for God’s kingdom.

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