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• It is not fear that stops you from doing the brave and true thing in your daily life. Rather, the problem is avoidance. You want to feel comfortable so you avoid doing or saying the thing that will evoke fear and other difficult emotions. Avoidance will make you feel less vulnerable in the short run but, it will never make you less afraid.

  Harriet Lerner

  Running, Brave, Want

  FaceBook post by Harriet Lerner from Sep 23, 2016

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• Is your life beautiful? Do you live in surroundings that you have made beautiful through your own unique, creative ideas? To expect and lovingly require beauty to be apparent in all areas of your life is to be deeply loving to yourself, your soul, your world, and shows reverence to God and all of life. There is always something beautiful to be found, right where you are, if you will look for it. Concentrate your thoughts on the good, the beautiful, and the true things in life.

  John Templeton

  Beauty, Beautiful, Unique

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• Tell me some true things about fighting.''Tell me you love me.''I love you,' the girl said. 'You can publish it in the Gazzettino if you like. I love your hard, flat body and your strange eyes that frighten me when they become wicked. I love your hand and all your other wounded places.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Girl, Love You, Eye

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Across the River and Into the Trees”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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• You know, I began my life as a creative person writing true things for magazines and telling some very honest, straightforward personal essaying for This American Life, but until someone forces you, with a deadline, to really observe your life - unless you're motivated to do it yourself - there's so many stories that you miss.

  John Hodgman

  Writing, Creative, Missing

  Interview with Greg Hunter, therumpus.net. October 21, 2013.

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• There was a moment in time where I was really focused on the Navy and I followed through with it - I passed the test. I was happy with myself because I was accomplishing something and I was really working towards a goal. That was the first true thing I invested my energy in.

  Kid Cudi

  Goal, Navy, Energy

  "Complex's Kid Cudi Cover Story: The Uncut Interview Outtakes". Interview with Joe La Puma, www.complex.com. August 15, 2009.

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• Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common... Celebrate it every day.

  Winston Churchill

  Diversity, Common, Celebrate

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• Writing is mysterious, and it's supposed to be...any path that gets you there is a good path in the end. But one true thing among all these paths is the need to tap a deep vein of connection between our own uncontrollable interior preoccupations and what we're most concerned about in the world around us. We write in response to that world; we write in response to what we read and learn; and in the end we write out of our deepest selves, the live, breathing, bleeding place where the picture forms, and where it all begins.

  Andrea Barrett

  Writing, Self, Breathing

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• Extending the language of film sometimes starts with just trying to show one true thing.

  Samuel Fuller

  Trying, Language, Sometimes

  Samuel Fuller, Christa Fuller, Jerome Rudes (2002). “A Third Face: My Tale of Writing, Fighting and Filmmaking”, Knopf

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• We must hold fast to the austere but true doctrine as to what really governs politics and saves or destroys states. Having in mind things true, things elevated, things just, things pure, things amiable, things of good report; having these in mind, studying and loving these, is what saves states.

  Matthew Arnold

  Truth, Mind, Doctrine

  Matthew Arnold (1912). “Thoughts on Education: Chosen from the Writings of Matthew Arnold”

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• I'm inspired by struggles. I've been through several really big ones in my life and I'm reminded of how God pulled me out of these certain situations and how my life was affected by that, so of course I don't like the hard times at all and I know it sounds really cliché to say 'hang in there' but it's a true thing, if you're actually believing in what our creator can do.

  The Rocket Summer

  Believe, Struggle, Hard Times

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• Imagine a mosaic picture of a house in the country: lots of red and blue and yellow and black and brown and white and a dozen different shades of green tiles which make a beautiful picture if you stand back far enough. All the little red squares are true - true things, true places, true feelings. But the red squares aren't the picture. All the rest of it is lies and stories, often within the same sentence.

  Neil Gaiman

  Beautiful, Country, Lying

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• I think emotional and mental pain is probably worse than physical pain. I think we don't realize that I have no arms or legs but we all have disabilities of some sort, some fear, some lost, some wishes that didn't come true, things we wish would be better.

  Nick Vujicic

  Pain, Emotional, Thinking

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Most true things are kind of corny, don’t you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of sheer embarrassment.

  Michel Faber

  Thinking, Kind, Corny

  Michel Faber (2014). “The Book of Strange New Things”, p.100, Canongate Books

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• If you set to work to believe everything, you will tire out the believing-muscles of your mind, and then you'll be so weak you won't be able to believe the simplest true things.

  Lewis Carroll

  Believe, Mind, Able

  Lewis Carroll, Roger Lancelyn Green (1989). “The Selected Letters of Lewis Carroll”, p.28, Springer

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• All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Lying, Writing, Shameless

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.5, Dial Press

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• Always do what you feel deeply in the within to be the true thing to do.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Things To Do, Feels

  Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “Wallace D. Wattles Ultimate Collection – 10 Books in One Volume: The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, The Science of Being Great, How to Get What You Want and more: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of Making of the Man Who Can or How to Promote Yourself and New Science of Living and Healing or Health Through New Thought and Fasting”, p.209, e-artnow

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• I want to believe as many true things and as few false things as possible.

  Matt Dillahunty

  Believe, Islam, Want

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• We writers  – and especially writers for children, but all writers –  have an obligation to our readers: it's the obligation to write true things, especially important when we are creating tales of people who do not exist in places that never were – to understand that truth is not in what happens but what it tells us about who we are. Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Lying, Writing

  Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.15, HarperCollins

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• For the critic, criticism is a form of natural self-expression, as poetry is to the poet. So, for a critic, criticism is a true thing. Criticism isn’t written for poets, it’s written for other readers. One hopes it is true for other readers if it’s true for oneself.

  Helen Vendler

  Self, Expression, Criticism

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• There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again. All the rest is humbug.

  Edouard Manet

  Paint, Begin Again, Humbug

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• Sometimes writers say true things about the overall nature of publicity, promotion, and the publishing industry; but alas, not always.

  Teresa Nielsen Hayden

  Publicity, Sometimes, Promotion

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• Writers say many true things about their own experiences with publicity and promotion.

  Teresa Nielsen Hayden

  Publicity, Bedtime, Promotion

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• Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.

  Neil Gaiman

  Lying, Eye, People

  Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.175, Hachette UK

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• Occasionally, in times of worry, I've longed to be stylish, but on second thought I say no-just let me be myself-and express rough, yet true things with rough workmanship.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Worry, Second Thoughts, Stylish

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• There is only one true thing: Instantly paint what you see.

  Edouard Manet

  Paint, Humbug

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