Quotes of Harvey Penick

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Thinking too much about how you're doing when you're doing is disastrous.

- Harvey Penick

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“ Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. ”

- Joan Crawford

“ I think romantic love evolved to enable you to focus your mating energy on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving mating time and energy. ”

- Helen Fisher

“ Willingness to show we are interested in our children’s needs takes the burden and worries off their minds. It shows compassion on our end, and it builds trust on their end. ”

- Charlena E. Jackson

“ I am convinced that one should tell one's spiritual director if one has a great desire for Communion, for Our Lord does not come from Heaven every day to stay in a golden ciborium; He comes to find another heaven, the heaven of our soul in which He loves to dwell. ”

- St. Therese of Lisieux

“ When love comes like that, all you can do is surrender, to lay down your arms and submit to the will of those who would love you. For in denying it, you face only regret. ”

- Michael Kilman

“ The human tendency is to resemble or imitate those we admire; the common result is the delusion, that to emulate another’s personality creates a pseudo persona, measurably dissimilar from our own. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ What I stand for is what I stand on. ”

- Wendell Berry

“ A bad attitude is like a flat tire, you can’t get very far until you change it. ”

- Unknown

“ I know that the whole point—the only point—is to find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go. ”

- Lauren Oliver

“ Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ Buy a pup and your money will buy Love unflinching that cannot lie. ”

- Rudyard Kipling

“ The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being. ”

- Tom Robbins

“ That's a misconception, Lennie. The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet. ”

- Jandy Nelson

“ Be supportive of others the way you would want them to be supportive of you. ”

- Ken Poirot

“ It takes courage to be honest and to work, while others play, cheat, sponge like parasites or are idle. There is value in the work that you choose to do, and you are an innately valuable person. ”

- Zita Steele

“ I love you and it’s getting worse. ”

- Joseph E. Morris

“ Battered was my heart in the deep search, branded with cracks like slices of silver birch. An ignorant dream, a wish, just fool's gold that was the tale that love had sold. ”

- Sara Secora

“ A life lived in love will never be dull. ”

- Leo Buscaglia

“ Nothing that is perfect can be taught ”

- Mike Stagnitta

“ It’s not bragging if you can back it up. ”

- Muhammad Ali

“ Let no one who loves be called unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow. ”

- J. M. Barrie

“ And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about. ”

- Haruki Murakami