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It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one’s mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.

Brenda Ueland

You can argue with a theologian or a politician, but doctors are sacrosanct. They know; you do not. Science has its mystique much more powerful than any religion active today.
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Active Religion Science Today
… the great artists … do not want security, egoistic or materialistic.
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Artist Materialistic Want
I want to understand more about everything you feel and know and all the changes inside and out of you. Let more come out.” And if you have no such friend,–and you want to write,–well, then you must imagine one.
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Boss Feel Friend People Want Write
Science and vivisection make no appeal to a theological idea, much less a political one.
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Animal Powerful Science
Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the self he thinks he *should* be.
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Self Speak Thinking
Orthodox criticism … is a murderer of talent. And because the most modest and sensitive people are the most talented, having the most imagination and sympathy, these are the first ones to get killed off.
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Helping Imagination Others People
You must become aware of the richness in you and come to believe in it and know it is there, so that you can write opulently and with self-trust. If you once become aware of it and have faith in it, you will be all right.
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Believe Self Writing
And so try listening. Listen to your wife, your husband, your father, your mother, your children, your friends; to those who love you and those who don’t, to those who bore you, to your enemies. It will work a small miracle. And perhaps a great one.
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Children Enemies Friends Husband
You Do Not Know Is in You- an Inexhaustible Fountain of Ideas. Another reason for writing a diary is to discover that the ideas in you are an inexhaustible fountain.
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Fountain Ideas Knows
If we don’t act at all (express our imaginings either in work or a changing personality, so that we can learn and think again something better) we certainly rot.
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Change Thinking Work
Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.
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Acceptance Inspirational Unique
You know, I have come to think listening is love, that’s what it really is.
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Listening Thinking
Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.
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Express Human Talent
If you would shut your door against the children for an hour a day and say: ‘Mother is working on her five-act tragedy in blank verse!’ you would be surprised how they would respect you. They would probably all become playwrights.
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Children Doors Mother
The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny.
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Love You Teacher Thinking
And it is why all the bright women of the world, who if more were expected of them, might do important work, but who instead have a chronic feeling of ineffectiveness and sloth.
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Ineffectiveness Instead might Sloth Women

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