Writing-related quote...

"I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars."
~ Fred Allen

Another quote

"No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helps you."
~ Althea Gibson

Predict the future quote...

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."
~ Peter Drucker

Success quote...

"The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do."
~ Leontyne Price

Punctual quote...

"The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it."
~ Franklin P. Jones

Writing quote...

"Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long."
~ Leonard Bernstein

Happiness...

"Happiness is a direction, not a place."
~ Sydney J. Harris

Success and failure quote...

"In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure."
~ Bill Cosby

Talent and Genius quote...

"Talent hits a target no one else can hit;
Genius hits a target no one else can see."
~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Chasing butterflies...

My friend Amy sent me this quote...

"Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

What kind or kinds of butterflies are you pursuing?

July quote...

"When you know clearly what you want, you’ll wake up every morning excited about life."
~ Mark Victor Hansen

John Piper quote...

My sister quoted this on her blog:

"The only life I have left to live is future life. The past is not in my hands to offer or alter. It is gone. Not even God will change the past. All the expectations of God are future expectations. All the possibilities of faith and love are future possibilities. And all the power that touches me with help to live in love is future power. As precious as the bygone blessings of God may be, if He leaves me only with the memory of those, and not with the promise of more, I will be undone. My hope for future goodness and future glory is future grace."
~ John Piper from Future Grace

Laughter quote...

"You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing."
~ Michael Pritchard

Soul Cravings...

I'm currently reading Soul Cravings by Erwin Raphael McManus.
While looking up what others have said, I found this quote from book that I haven't gotten to yet.

"Home is ultimately not about a place to live but about people with whom you are most fully alive. Home is about love, relationship, community, and belonging, and we are all searching for home."
~ Erwin McManus, Soul Cravings

myspace.com/soulcravings

life unseen quote...

"The best things in life are unseen, that's why we close our eyes when we kiss, cry, and dream."
~ ?

Henry David Thoreau...

"If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
~ Henry David Thoreau

author quote...

"...the author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in you for utterance."
~ Oswald Chambers

love quote...

"Love always means going to others, not demanding that they come to us."
~ Paul Tournier

Been awhile since I posted a quote...

"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending."
~ Maria Robinson

What if...

Over the weekend I checked out Butterfly Effect II (the original was better - yet both were a bit odd). I've always been intriqued by time changing films like the Back to the Future trilogy and other 'what if' movies like Mr. Destiny and The Family Man and It's a Wonderful Life.
(What other movies am I missing that are similar to the movies above?)

If you had the ability to change one thing in the past, what would you change? What would you not change? (I'm still thinking)

"Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future."
~ Dale E. Turner