Marci’s Submitted Quotes

Obstacles are like wild animals.  They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can.  If they see you are afraid of them… they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.

To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves. We must persistantly and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here–with its gift of energy and heightened awareness–so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is  more important than fear.

Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.

“Worry is a down payment on a problem you may never have.”

Why waste a second not loving who you are
Those little imperfections make you beautiful, lovable, valuable,
They show your personality inside your heart
Reflecting who you are.

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

“Only as high as I reach can I grow,
only as far as I seek can I go,
only as deep as I look can I see,
only as much as I dream can I be."

Chase down your passion like it’s the last bus of the night.”

To exist is to change, to change is to
mature, to mature is to go on creating
oneself endlessly

We have to look at our own inertia, insecurities, self-hate, fear that, in truth, we have nothing valuable to say. When your writing blooms out of the back of this garbage compost, it is very stable.

We must be willing to let go of the
life we have planned, so as to have the life
that is waiting for us.

Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.

Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.

As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened. 

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

All of these lines across my face
Tell you the story of who I am
So many stories of where I've been
And how I got to where I am

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next.