“Look inside yourself for the answers—you're the only one who knows what's best for you. Everybody else is only guessing.”~Charles de Lint Canadian writer Charles de Lint was born on this day in 1951. Follow me on Facebook @jjshaunauthor.
“Look inside yourself for the answers—you're the only one who knows what's best for you. Everybody else is only guessing.”~Charles de Lint Canadian writer Charles de Lint was born on this day in 1951. Follow me on Facebook @jjshaunauthor.
“If you have an opportunity to use your voice you should use it.”~Samuel L. Jackson American actor and producer Samuel L. Jackson was born on this day in 1948. Follow me on Facebook @jjshaunauthor.
“What you're going to be asked to do is bigger than what you think you can do. It's always bigger than what you think you can handle, but you're never going to be given something you can't handle.”~Sandra Cisneros American writer Sandra Cisneros was born on this day in 1954. Follow me on Facebook @jjshaunauthor.
“Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change. It can not only move us, it makes us move.”~Ossie Davis American actor, director, writer, and activist Ossie Davis was born on this day in 1917. Follow me on Facebook @jjshaunauthor
“Just because your whole life is going to hell doesn't mean you have to walk there.”~Jack L. Chalker2013, “The River of Dancing Gods”, p.5, Hachette UK American science fiction author Jack L. Chalker was born on this day in 1944. Follow me on Facebook @jjshaunauthor
“Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy… fear makes you always, always hold something back.”~Philip K. Dick(1976). “Flow my tears, the policeman said” American science fiction writer Philip K. Dick was born on this day in 1928. Follow me on Facebook @jjshaunauthor
“People always think that happiness is a faraway thing … something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up.”~Betty Smith American author Betty Smith was born on this day in 1896. Follow me on Facebook @jjshaunauthor
“Dreams: the place most of us get what we need.”~Amy Hempel American short-story writer and journalist Amy Hempel was born on this day in 1951. Follow me on Facebook @jjshaunauthor
“Do not try to do extraordinary things but do ordinary things with intensity.”~Emily Carr Canadian artist and writer Emily Carr was born on this day in 1871. Follow me on Facebook @jjshaunauthor
“Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.”~Grace Paley American short story author, poet, teacher, and political activist Grace Paley was born on this day in 1922.
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