Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.
When we point to obstacles we inhibit progress. When we offer solutions we advance.
The goal is not to be perfect by the end. The goal is to be better today.
If you want to achieve anything in this world, you have to get used to the idea that not everyone will like you.
Dream big. Start small. But most of all, start.
When you compete against everyone else, no one wants to help you. But when you compete against yourself, everyone wants to help you.
Words may inspire but only action creates change.
Before I travelled my road I was my road.
Fear stimulates us to take action and can be our friend, but if you act as though fear is not there-if you deny it-it will build and create barriers.
We lost not only through death, but also by leaving and being left, by changing and letting go and moving on. And our losses include not only our separations and departures from those we love, but our conscious and unconscious losses of romantic dreams, impossible expectations, illusions of freedom and power, illusions of safety -- and the loss of our own younger self, the self that thought it would always be unwrinkled and invulnerable and immortal.
By definition it uses and plays and delights in time. It delights in the interlacing of chronologies and the consequences of that interlacing. And those have personal and psychological expressions in a character. Aside from other issues of writing, psychological characterization is what narrative can do best.