Quotes for You and Me
Maybe it's just me, a person who loves to write, but I love using the words of other people. At the same time and almost every time I quote someone else, a little voice inside me wonders, "Why not write your own quotes? Why not spend time with your own observations of life and see what insights you can focus on? What can you say that goes beyond a superficial platitude that often applies only in a few small circumstances?"So today, as I still have a cast on my writing wrist, and am using dictation to create much of this post, I went back through my archives and pulled up 10 quotations that I've written over the last few years, to share with you. I'll list those shortly. Before I get to them though, my inner voice is telling me that you the readers also have something insightful to say and to share.What if we wrote our own quotes? I’d like to put out a request to all of you readers to send me a quote that you’ve written and next week I will feature them. I think it’s a fun assignment and it helps us claim our individual point of view and authority. I will add, it also helps me in my limited ability to type situation right now. I’m slowly training my left arm to work the mouse a bit so I can copy and paste! I hope you’ll consider it. I’m really excited to hear what you have to say.Meanwhile, I'm working on an original post for next week, tackling one of those juicy spectrums between two extremes, that I love to dive into!
Quotes by Rox
- Someone’s ‘work’ has to get done first. Why not choose mine?
- I like calling my creative projects 'work.' It helps me take my efforts seriously.
- Energy is not absolute good or bad; I’m using whatever form shows up to support my intentions.
- Where do I go when I want to get off my case? Nowhere. I AM here now. That’s enough.
- I’m on a quest to find out how lazy I can be and still accept and respect myself.
- Being idle can be quite productive, when consciousness is allowed in the room.
- Staying in the present is no easy task. Still, there’s no place else I’d rather be.
- Procrastination is trusting the soul to deliver at the right time and place, while the Universe cooks up magic in the unseen background.
- Optimism is truth’s cousin. Welcome to the fam!
- The best way to create the future is to occupy the present.
Today, the Kiowa writer, N. Scott Momaday left us. Read his poetry here:
Poets.org - Academy of American Poets
