Beauty:

  Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.       ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Writing:
  The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.                                  ~Anaïs Nin

  Writer’s block is a disease for which there is no cure, only respite.                                                      ~Laurie Wordholt

  Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.                                                                                       ~Jules Renard, Journal, 10 April 1895

  The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof shit detector.  This is the writer’s radar and all great writers have had it.                                                                                                                       ~Ernest Hemingway

Emotions:

  The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.                                               ~Jim Rohn

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.                                                                                                                                                                                      ~Dale Carnegie

Life:

  Life’s not always fair.  Sometimes you can get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow.           ~Cherralea Morgen

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.                                                                               ~Friedrich Nietzsche