And the true listener is much more beloved, magnetic than the talker, and he is more effective and learns more and does more good
Brenda UelandYou 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.
Brenda UelandWe have come to think that duty should come first. I disagree. Duty should be a by-product. Writing, the creative effort, the use of the imagination, should come first – at least, for some part of every day of your life. It is a wonderful blessing if you use it. You will become happier, more enlightened, alive, impassioned, light-hearted and generous to everybody else. Even your health will improve. Colds will disappear and all the other ailments of discouragement and boredom.
Brenda UelandThink of yourself as incandescent power, illuminated perhaps and forever talked to by God and his messengers.
Brenda Ueland