This tweet arrived today in my Twitter DM box: “Hi Orna, thanks for the quotes you tweet, especially your own ones. Have you collected these together anywhere?”

I was going to reply that I hadn’t and then I thought, you know I probably should, and next thing I knew, I had.

• Freethinking: asking questions that may not have answers. Belief or nonbelief: having answers that may not be questioned.
• It takes a great reader to make a great book.
• Success comes when your desire to achieve exceeds your fear of foolishness or failure.
• To let something go, it helps to know that you’re holding it.
• You say the world is made of atoms? I say
  it’s made of stories.
• In your judgements of others, you define yourself.
• How you do money is how you do life.
• My freedom frees you and yours, me.
• Choose an author as you would choose a friend.
• Go Creative! It’s Your Native State.
• The best leaders don’t say “I”. That’s because they don’t think “I”. They think “We”.
• Climb mountains in order to climb mountains. Write in order to write.
• To go where you want to go or love where you already are? Either is good; both is best.
• It’s never too late to have a creative childhood.
• Stop with the answers. Go back to the question.
• Dance to the tune that’s playing not to the noise in your head.
• Imagination is not the icing on life but the oven in which it is baked.
• Poetry is language dancing.
• You can achieve anything you want so long as you realise you can’t achieve everything you want.
• Write what you need to read, teach what you need to learn.
• Confidence is a muscle. Flex it!
• The more set and specific a sacred symbol, the further it has moved from that which it symbolises.
• It’s good to have an end to journey to but in the end what counts is how you like to travel.
• The better the writing you read, the better the writing you write.
• Listen is an anagram of silent. So now you know.
• To go where you want to go or love where you already are? Either is good; both is best.
• Thoughts are the breath of the mind.
• Be inspired. Yes, in many ways, it’s a choice.
• The times are always uncertain, we are never too far from an edge, the task is always: balance.
• Religion is the theory; creativity is the practice.
• True intentions make you strong, wishful thinking makes you weak.
• If you can’t change your mind, you can’t change anything.

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