Jeanne Marie Laskas Quotes

#1. Dreams are matters of the heart, things that pull you along as if they have hooked you someplace deep inside.

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#2. Forgiveness is the path to healing.

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#3. You plant a garden one flower at a time ... You write a book one word at a time, clean a closet one shelf at a time, run a marathon one step at a time. If you feel defeated by some large task, get your spade and dig the first hole.

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#4. Isolation is aloneness that feels forced upon you, like a punishment. Solitude is aloneness you choose and embrace. I think great things can come out of solitude, out of going to a place where all is quiet except the beating of your heart.

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#5. But the writing life, it turned out, was difficult. It wasn't like you could sit down and flip a switch and crank on the ventilation system. Sometimes it didn't work, and sometimes you couldn't even find the switch.

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#6. Why do we think the people on stage are the only ones having fun?

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#7. I wanted to go to a place where I could think, really sink into my own imagination, or ride it, or drift along it, as in a balloon. The kind of place that probably all writers crave. The kind of place where the outside world is still and quiet and you get a chance to listen, to peer, to go inward

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#8. It's much better to be apart and wish you were together than to be together and wish you were apart.

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#9. The neighbor's flock has taken advantage of the chaos, and I think that's pretty smart.

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#10. I was suppose to write a book about being a mom, to organize my thoughts into chapters and figure out a structure to hang them on, to make a lasting point, but somehow I decided to go ahead and become a mother instead.

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#11. You can make your life so much larger simply be acknowledging everyone else's.

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#12. I think the call of the inward life starts here. Solitude helps you differentiate, define the borders of the self. Solitude helps you figure our where everybody else stops and you begins.

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#13. Maybe the biggest problem with loneliness is that we walk around thinking we're the only ones suffering from it.

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#14. All peace-loving women shut up when they sense they have stepped onto Guy Turf. Guy Turf is a murky realm of ego and pride and chivalry and testosterone and heroism.

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#15. If I'm going to be working out here in a place that at least feels like the middle of nowhere, I'm going to need access to the outside world. It's important to have access. Solitude is one thing, but you could turn into the Unabomber if you don't have some connection to people.

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#16. Just because politicians, scientists, and business execs are raging about it, and newspaper headlines are screaming it, doesn't mean the message sticks - or that people care. It takes more than that to change a culture. In

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