Intergenerational Writing
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Ben Harris
“If you only do what you can do, you will never be more than you are now.”
― Master Shifu
Deborah Fryer
“Creativity is intelligence having fun.” ―Unknown
Spencer Knoll
"Do not fear mistakes. There are none."
―Miles Davis
Pat Adams
"Just work hard and be nice to people!"
―Michael Franti and Spearhead
Suzanne Phillips
"Even after all this time, the sun never says to the Earth, 'You owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that... It lights the whole sky."
―Hafiz
Frankie Kramer
"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."
―Ferris Bueller
Lily Pangelinan
“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart...live in the question.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke
Dawn Pare
"There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how we use them.”
―Nietzsche
Eve Kilmer
“Live as if you are going to die tomorrow. Learn as if you are going to live together.”
―Unknown
Kinley Oppenheimer
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
nothing is going to get better, it’s not.”
―Dr Seuss, The Lorax
David Greenberg
"My life's journey - growing a wonderful family, adventure, and personal discovery."
Mohammed Albakr
ﻣﺎ كﻞ ﻣﺎ ﯾﺘﻤ نى اﻟﻤﺮء ﺪرﻛﮫ، ﺗﺠﺮي اﻟﺎح بﻤﺎ ﻻ ﺸﺘ ي " اﻟﺴﻔﻦ –" اﻟﻤﺘﻨب يى
“Not everything a person wishes for can be achieved; the winds may blow in ways the ships do not desire.”
— Al-Mutanabbi
Brad Munson
“The One you are looking for is the One who is looking.”
―St Francis
Isolde Stewart
“Rootedness on this planet, inwoven with the effort to connect/
begin to reveal the foundation of culture. There is a natural basis for exchanging things/ A sense of mingled destinies/
We are World people”
Tom Bogdan
"Be yourself, everyone else is already taken."
―Oscar Wilde
Ryann Englhard
"Beautiful things don't ask for attention."
―Sean O'Connell
Addy Rucker
“The breadth and depth of love flow as a winding but unbroken river.”
―Paul Zeiger
Lee Carlin
Betty Jones
"It's always something."
―Gilda Radner
Malachi Radke
"I am sending you out like sheep in the midst of wolves. So, be as clever as serpents and as innocent as doves."
―Mathew 10:16
Margot LaPanse
"The bigger the issue, the smaller you write. Remember that. You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying on the road. You pick the smallest manageable part of the big thing, and you work out of that resonance."
―Richard Price
Bessie Lipman
“She was unstoppable, not because she did not have failures or doubts, but because she continued on despite them.”
— Beau Taplin
Autumn Torres
“Some friendships are written in the margins of life — quiet, golden, and full of laughter.”
Nancy Leibig
“Lucky me!”
Olga Hak Jacobi
“The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size.”
—Albert Einstein
Megan Boren-Sprunger
Virginia Schultz
“~your air is my air ~ ~our soil is our bones ~ ~and water our life-blood ~”
Ally Weisblatt
“Just take it day by day”
Sandy Lombardi
After a lifetime of searching for the answers to Life's big questions, I found that,
“The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind.”
― Bob Dylan
Anikah Jordan
“If you’re lucky enough to be in the mountains, you’re lucky enough”
―Unknown
Anna Gledhill
“All growth starts at the end of your comfort zone.”
―Tony Robbins
Robert Gaarder
“Be Kind, for Everyone You Meet is Fighting a Hard Battle."
―Philo
Marin Mckinney
“Kindness and a smile can take you miles.”
― Unknown
Chris Hamlyn
“The truth of my experience is that we are all a lot more alike than we are different.”
―Anne Lamott
Ginny Landes
“Not all who wander are lost.”
—J.R.R. Tolkien
Ella Battaglia
“May the flowers remind us why the rain was so necessary.”
—Xan Oku
