The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
Surrounded yourself with brilliant people. You can't HELP but grow when that happens.
Don't settle. Don't finish crappy books. If you don't like the menu, leave the restaurant. If you're not on the right path, get off it.
What's required is a kind of social media sherpa, who can find you the audience you seek, who can reach to them on the platforms where they are already congregating, and who can help promote in tasteful ways that fit the sensitivities of the networks where your audiences are found.
Ask yourself this question CONSTANTLY: where can I add the most value to what matters most to me and the people who care about me?
Your excuses will never be as good as the story of how you got it done.
Your day is your week is your month is your year.
I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
The love for our enemies takes us along the way of the cross and into fellowship with the Crucified. The more we are driven along this road, the more certain is the victory of love over the enemy's hatred. For then it is not the disciple's own love, but the love of Jesus Christ alone, who for the sake of his enemies went to the cross and prayed for them as he hung there.
Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.