10 Quotes on Books / Reading AND a #Kindle Sale @DonnaFaz #99cents

“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.” ~Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

“Books may well be the only true magic.” ~Alice Hoffman, author of The Dovekeepers

“Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.” ~Stephen King, author of The Stand

“Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.” ~J.K. Rowling, author of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” ~Cicero, Roman statesman, orator, lawyer and philosopher

“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.” ~Mark Twain, author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.” ~Anna Quindlen, author of How Reading Changed My Life

“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.” ~Orhan Pamuk, author of My Name is Red

“Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.” ~Dave Eggers, author of The Monk of Mokha

“The world was hers for the reading.” ~Betty Smith, author of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

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This month I’m offering my 2-book bundle, Falling For A Single Mom, for just 99¢ in the Kindle Store. That’s a $6 savings off the regular price. But you’ve got to hurry because this offer is only good through the end of May.

Click here to find FallingFor A Single Mom in the Kindle Store.

Or click on the cover below. Happy Reading!

How Important is the Truth? @DonnaFaz #Quotes

Authentic communication relies on truth. Lies are easy and often more comforting than honesty; however, truth builds trust, and trust allows us to live in peace. Offering truth is treating others with dignity and respect. Here are some wonderful quotes about truth.

“Truth is like a lion; it needs no defense. Let it loose. It will defend itself.” ~St. Augustine

“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.” ~Buddha

“Truth is powerful and it prevails.” ~Sojourner Truth

“There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness, and truth.” ~Leo Tolstoy

“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember what you said.” ~Mark Twain

“A single lie discovered creates doubt in every truth.” ~Unknown

“Beware of the half-truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.” ~Unknown

“If you tell the truth, it becomes a part of your past. If you tell a lie, it becomes a part of your future.”  ~Unknown

“Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones.” ~Albert Einstein

“The truth will set you free. But first it will piss you off.” ~Gloria Steinem

“Hell is truth seen too late.” ~Thomas Hobbes

“The truth will set you free.” ~Jesus (John 8:32)

“Speak the truth even if your voice shakes.” ~Unknown

“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” ~George Orwell

“Truth costs nothing while a lie could cost you everything.” ~Unknown

“In our struggle for freedom, truth is the only weapon we possess.” ~Dalai Lama

“Wisdom is found only in truth.” ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Do you have a favorite quote about truth?

10 Quotes on Keeping a Positive Attitude - #AmWriting @DonnaFaz

I love memorable quotes and positive affirmations. Keeping a positive attitude is important, especially when the chips are down. Having just been released from the hospital after emergency surgery, I could use a kick or two in the old attitude, so here are some inspiring quotes on cultivating a good one. Sharing funny quotes is more my style, but you’ll have to forgive me. It hurts to laugh.

1. Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching? ~Dennis and Wendy Mannering

2. It’s so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to. ~Annie Gottlier

3. Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. ~Winston Churchill

4. It’s not what they take away from you that counts; it’s what you do with what you have left. ~Hubert Humphrey

5. To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. ~George Santayana

6. The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders. ~Foster’s Law

7. Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don’t expect to harvest Golden Delicious. ~Bill Meyer

8. You can bear your troubles or shrug them off. They’re your shoulders. ~Robert Brault

9. The soul does not absorb negativity by accident, but always by choice. ~Dodinsky

10. Those who wish to sing will always find a song. ~Swedish Proverb

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Get Your Giggle On! It's Hump Day!

Smile! It's Wednesday. The week is half over. The weekend is a coming!

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What do you call a bear without teeth? A gummy bear. (No groaning allowed!)

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If at first you don't succeed…skydiving isn't for you.

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A fact of life: Some days you are the pigeon, some days you are the statue.

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Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.

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Eat one live cricket for breakfast each morning, and you'll be assured that nothing worse could happen to you for 24 hours.

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If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done. Except for people who have this problem:

 

Here's wishing you a Happy Hump Day!

To Read Is To Dream

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.  ~Chinese Proverb

A dirty book is rarely dusty.  ~Unknown

Medicine for the soul.  ~Inscription over the door of the Library at Thebes

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
 

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.  ~Edmund Burke

He fed his spirit with the bread of books.  ~Edwin Markham

Never judge a book by its movie.  ~J.W. Eagan 

Books are a uniquely portable magic.  ~Stephen King

To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to read it for a second time is to meet an old one.  ~Chinese Saying

Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.  

~William Styron    

We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.  ~Henry Miller
     

It's Tuesday! Let's Celebrate!

Yes, I believe Tuesday is a reason to celebrate. So let the party begin!

What we see depends mainly on what we look for. ~John Lubbuck

It's a terrible thing to see and have no vision. ~Helen Keller

People who think they are crazy enough to change the world, 

are the ones who do. ~Jack Kerouac

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow 

confines of his individualistic concerns to the 

broader concerns of all humanity. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

A good head and a good heart are always a 

formidable combination. ~Nelson Mandela 

I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life – 

and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

~Georgia O'Keeffe

As Summer Dwindles

It's coming. The end of summer is fast approaching. I can feel it in the chill of the early morning air. I can see it on the color-tinged tips of the tree leaves. I can hear it in the chirrup of the cicadas. I can smell it when I drive through a nearby apple orchard. Sure, autumn doesn't arrive for another month, but I can feel the old girl coming. Can't you?

“One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.”  ~Henry David Thoreau

“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”  ~Henry James

“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness?”  ~John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“It's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine ... it's summertime!”  ~Kenny Chesney

“A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.”  ~Patricia Briggs, Dragon Blood

“If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper...”  ~Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“Summer bachelors like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.”  ~Nora Ephron

“Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?”  ~Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“When the sun gets hot and the moon gets hazy
good girls go bad... and it gets crazy!”  ~Rachel Thompson

“Some of the best memories are made in flip flops.”  ~Kellie Elmore

Enjoy what's left of these lazy summer days! I intend to slip on my flip flops and make some happy memories.

The Ocean

"My life is like a stroll on the beach...as near to the edge as I can go." ~Thoreau

"The Sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever." ~Jacques Cousteau

"At the beach, life is different. Time doesn't move hour to hour but mood to moment. We live by the currents, plan by the tides and follow the sun." ~Unknown

Perfect Quote for Writers

The pen is the tongue of the mind. 

~Miguel de Cervantes

Happy Thanksgiving

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
Aesop

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You cannot do a kindness too soon
because you never know how soon it will be too late.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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No one is useless in this world
who lightens the burden of another.
Charles Dickens

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Some people are always grumbling
because roses have thorns;
I am thankful that thorns have roses.
Alphonse Karr

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When I started counting my blessings,
my whole life turned around.
Willie Nelson

 

And now for a moment of Zen

"Forgiveness is this world's equivalent of Heaven's Justice."
                                                                         ~ A Course In Miracles

"When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free."
                                                                                              ~ Catherine Ponder



"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."  ~ Mahatma Gandhi


"Always forgive you enemies - nothing annoys them so much. 
                                                                                            ~ Oscar Wilde