We have come to think that duty should come first. I disagree. Duty should be a by-product. Writing, the creative effort, the use of the imagination, should come first – at least, for some part of every day of your life. It is a wonderful blessing if you use it. You will become happier, more enlightened, alive, impassioned, light-hearted and generous to everybody else. Even your health will improve. Colds will disappear and all the other ailments of discouragement and boredom.
Your motto: Be Bold, Be Free, Be Truthful. - Brenda Ueland
Your motto: Be Bold, Be Free, Be Truthful.
- Brenda Ueland
Why should we all use our creative power....? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold and compassionate, so indi… - Brenda Ueland
Why should we all use our creative power....? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold and compassionate, so indi…
The only way to love a person is...by listening to them and seeing and believing in the god, in the poet, in them. For by doing this, you keep the go… - Brenda Ueland
The only way to love a person is...by listening to them and seeing and believing in the god, in the poet, in them. For by doing this, you keep the go…
Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express. - Brenda Ueland
Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.
Creative power flourishes only when I am living in the present. - Brenda Ueland
Creative power flourishes only when I am living in the present.
I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed… - Brenda Ueland
I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed…
the death of any loved parent is an incalculable lasting blow. Because no one ever loves you again like that. - Brenda Ueland
the death of any loved parent is an incalculable lasting blow. Because no one ever loves you again like that.
it is when you are really living in the present-working, thinking, lost, absorbed in something you care about very much, that you are living spiritua… - Brenda Ueland
it is when you are really living in the present-working, thinking, lost, absorbed in something you care about very much, that you are living spiritua…
When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life. - Brenda Ueland
When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.
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