Everyone at Kindling Words gave a favorite quotation, many of which resonated with me, so I thought I would share those. . . .

“‘Now’ is the operative word. . . . You don’t need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.”–Barbara Sher

“The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.”–Abbie Hoffman

“One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.”–Katherine Anne Porter

“We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.”–Sigmund Freud

“We will rise to the occasion which is life.”–Virginia Euwer Wolff

“Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.”–proverb

“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”–Anton Chekhov

“Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”–E. L. Doctorow

“It’s not down on any map; true places never are.”–Herman Melville

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”–George Bernard Shaw

“Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting–over and over announcing your place in the family of things.”–Mary Oliver

“Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.”–Edith Wharton

“Don’t ask yourself what the world regards; ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”–Howard Thurman

“I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.”–William Faulkner

“That’s a sure way to tell about somebody–the way they play, or don’t play, make-believe.”–Madeleine L’Engle

“Things needs not have happened to be true.”–Neil Gaiman

“Grown-ups always say they protect their children, but they’re really protecting themselves. Besides, you can’t protect children. They know everything.”–Maurice Sendak

(I gave the Yeats quote that I love: “I bring you with reverent hands / The books of my numberless dreams.”)