Life Quotes
You may call me a living testament of how life quotes find us, when we least expect it, but desperately need direction. Why don't you decide?
I was in my element that Sunday afternoon, browsing in a used book shop -one of those marvelous places where we are drawn inside by its dusty charm. Books were piled haphazardly on ceiling to floor bookshelves.
I was contentedly sitting cross-legged on the floor, in the writer and poets section, flipping through pages of the latest book on 'you-too-can-write-a-novel'.
I felt it whoosh past my head and heard it plop on the floor. "It" was a thin volume titled Tao Te Ching, which landed 'tails' or bottom side up. After reading a couple of the back cover blurbs, it became apparent this was no
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Tingles raced down my spine. I experienced one of those rare moments of clarity where you know everything there is to know about something and you know that you know it.
I knew that it was time to take that single step, which I had been afraid to take all of my adult life.
I would become a writer! I had always believed I was born with the soul of a writer. However, an alcoholic, abusive mother had stripped away my self-esteem and creativity.
So, who shelved the Tao Te Ching in the wrong section? What caused it to tumble from the top shelf at that particular moment in time? Why did I open it to that specific page?
What do you think?
Are you wondering how life quotes can benefit you?
I can't guarantee you an epiphany. But, I can assure you that positive quotes offer time proven perspectives on problem-solving, inspire us to take action and provide direction when we are spinning in negative space.
Keeping Ecclesiastes 1:9 in mind – What has been is what will be and what has been done is what will be done and there is nothing new under the sun – serves as an excellent prompt that someone, somewhere, sometime has conquered similar