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Do not measure your life by your goals but what you are doing to achieve them. — Peter Drucker

People don't care about health,
they just don't want to be sick. — Richard Diaz

One of the notebooks was for musings and pep talks. ... The other notebooks were for writing out the novel the way authors had done for centuries. — Gail Godwin

BAM said the Lady, move on — Nathan Fillion

Heroics are not easily had for the young in our times. Perhaps that is why they go to such extremes to create their own dangers. — Gail Godwin

What does a house want to be? — Louis Kahn

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. — Gail Godwin

How easy it was to make people happy, when you didn't want or need anything from them. — Gail Godwin

If there is such a thing as sin in this world, I think it must be shutting oneself up against hope. — Gail Godwin

But the son whips out a Bayer aspirin, the father rises to his feet, embraces the son, and Technicolor is restored to their lives. — Gail Godwin

I believe that with enough practice and good faith, you can learn to recognize when the work is achieved. — Gail Godwin

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are. — Gail Godwin

Much of the activity we think of as writing is, actually, getting ready to write. — Gail Godwin

The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it. — Gail Godwin

Other people don't exist when you're not with them. — Gail Godwin

At times ... one is downright thankful for the self-absorption of other people. — Gail Godwin

The future arches above us all like a giant question mark, looming or embracing by whims and turns. — Gail Godwin

Speech isn't for agony. — Hortense Calisher

When music dies, it's like my soul left my body. — Kristine

The one thing I hate more than being with you, is being without you. — Peter Ritz

Learning when 'enough is enough' is the discipline of a lifetime. — Gail Godwin

None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime. — Gail Godwin

General Confession it had been watered down to we are truly sorry and we humbly repent. — Gail Godwin

I read constantly. If I don't have a good book, I'm beside myself. — Gail Godwin

Actors between plays are like ghosts looking for bodies to inhabit. — Gail Godwin

Sometimes I come home and still can't believe it's all mine. — Lorrie Fair

We wanted a feminist revolution. I wanted it like a lover. I wanted it like justice. — Dorothy Allison

In old days men studied for the sake of self-improvement; nowadays men study in order to impress other people. — Confucius

the remembrance of them is grievous unto us; the burden of them is intolerable. — Gail Godwin

The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers. — Gail Godwin

I'm just going to go with it for as long as it lasts. — Karrie Webb

During the act of writing I have told myself something that I didn't know I knew. — Gail Godwin

A lot of the things I say I'm just trying to be funny ... I don't really mean everything I say, because I'm not totally that airhead. — Paris Hilton

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language. — Gail Godwin

Some things arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever. — Gail Godwin

I definitely feel excited to be able to put really hard beats - like hip-hop beats - behind my music, more than I did before. — Natalia Kills

We belabour, I think, under a very heavy crust of consumerism really. — Emma Thompson

Life is a disease ... — Gail Godwin

The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: There is a forward motion to yearning. — Gail Godwin

The more you respect and focus on the singular and the strange, the more you become aware of the universal and infinite. — Gail Godwin

Truths physical have an origin as divine as truths religious. — David Brewster

The characters that I create are parts of myself and I send them on little missions to find out what I don't know yet. — Gail Godwin

Hope does not necessarily have to take an object ... — Gail Godwin

Negative people present us with an accelereted personal growth opportunity. — Gail Godwin