Each Day Already is a Challenge

I wanna have wise words

I have always loved reading the quotations of wise men and women. They don't have to be the most famous folks on earth, although it seems that most are famous.

Some of the wisest words can be found in the book of Proverbs. Have you ever just poured over Proverbs?

Prov 10:4 NIV
Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth.

Prov 10:9 NIV
The man of integrity walks securely, but he who takes crooked paths will be found out.

Prov 10:12 NIV
Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers over all wrongs.

Prov 11:12 NIV
A man who lacks judgment derides his neighbor, but a man of understanding holds his tongue.

There are other wise words, of course. It always amazes me when people who claim to be writers, here and on other sites, also proclaim that they have no time to read. How can one be a writer who does not read? Here's what some wise folks say about reading:

Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. We must not permit anything to stand between us and the book that could change our lives. ~ Jim Rohn

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. ~ Mark Twain

The things you read will fashion you by slowly conditioning your mind. ~ A.W. Tozer

About writing:

What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers. -Logan Pearsall Smith

About giving advice (or reviews?):

Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. ~ Mark Twain

About being an artist or being creative:

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. ~ Charles Horton Cooley

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it. ~ Carl R. Rogers

Thinking: The talking of the soul with itself. ~ Plato

Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best. ~ Henry Van Dyke

Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become, in the hands of one who knows how to combine them! ~ Vathaniel Hawthorne

Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it,
picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light. ~ Joseph Pulitzer

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." -Aristotle

Saying these kinds of things gets me into trouble, but it's really what I believe. This is Kenzie.

Kenzie says: "I don’t think true writers ever write anything bad, not if we allow the heart and soul to be the writer of our words."

Kenzie says: "If you dream of being a writer, you already are one! The words are merely being held prisoner in your mind. Release them!"

And because I think we need reminded of this now and then:

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. ~ President John Adams, Oct. 11, 1798

Some links you might like:

Online Magazines
http://onlinenewspapers.com/magazines/

Newspapers and Magazines
http://www.allyoucanread.com/

A Publisher
http://www.wordwright.biz/html/submissions.html

The Vocabula Review
http://www.vocabula.com/

The Poetry Market E-Zine
http://www.thepoetrymarket.com/