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You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.

Ray Bradbury

You can make yourself happy or miserable – it’s the same amount of effort.
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Effort Happiness Misery Yourself
Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.
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Energy Excitement Ideas
Love what you do and do what you love. Don’t listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life.
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Imagination Life Listening Love Yourself
Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.
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Intuition Poet Way Writing Yourself
Write a short story every week. It’s not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.
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Poet Possible Story Writing
There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves.
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Afraid Darkness Fear Past Shadow
You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.
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Simplicity Try Yourself
Do what you love and love what you do. Don’t do anything for money. Everything should be for love.
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Love Money Yourself
Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.
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Love Reason Worth
We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?
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Alone Important Need Reality
How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.
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Creativity Failure Ideas Ourselves Success Work Writing
If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
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Difficult Enjoyment Live Philosophy Positive Thinking Yourself
Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I’m one of them.
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Born Cry Easy Hurt Myself People Quick Reason Remember Sad World Young
Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.
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Accomplishment Dream Fiction History Man Science Yourself
Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.
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Morning Myself Pieces Togetherness
In order to be creative, you don’t have to be original.
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Creativity Original

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