I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself. Every now and again, you write a poem that gives you self-respect and steadies your going a little bit farther out in the stream. At the same time, you have to conjure the next stepping stone because the stream, we hope, keeps flowing.
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ABRAHAM HICKS The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping st... PABLO PICASSO Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. Tra... YVON CHOUINARD You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of... LEONARDO DA VINCI Don’t think you have lost the time.Take each & every situation you encounter as stepping stone to ... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA In the same way the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream of flowing, it is God's natur... CHARLES SPURGEON In the end, it all comes to choices to turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones. 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Close the door on the past. You don't try ... JOHNNY CASH Everybody has been stepping up at any given time to get it done. If you look at our box score it's n... HOLLY VAN VLYMEN Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON Hope is a flowing stream. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA To try to create a character without a whole lot of information can be taxing. At the same time, it&... DALLAS ROBERTS Walk, run, cycle - When you live inside your head for such long periods of time, you have to open th... TWINKLE KHANNA There is freedom in stepping out and taking risks when you know at any given moment, you can always ... EVA GREGORY You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to f... JOHNNY CASH But at the same time, sometimes it is very good to write with other people because you do have that ... BARRY MANN Music and literature have always and continue to be massive influences. Writers such as Seamus Heane... BRONAGH GALLAGHER Life's fairly excruciating. Painful things happen. Every now and then, you drag yourself out of ... HELEN GARNER Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON If you catch yourself wondering why you want more of the world and you're not satisfied with God, it... CRAIG GROESCHEL An Indigo Bunting let out a trill, a cheery song, reminding me of better days, of hope and happiness... CHERYL R COWTAN The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman. But the ... C. JOYBELL C. You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES If you make an error, use it as a stepping stone to a new idea you might not have otherwise discover... ROGER VON OECH Now, being one who lived in the era of Obama, there are so many markers of improvement made. It'... MAHERSHALA ALI While it's important to accept failure and not let it bog you down, it's also perfectly acce... JOHN RAMPTON I was interested in stepping out as a woman in philanthropy because I know that there are lots of po... SALLY ANDERSON Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of... C. K. WILLIAMS They hung off a little bit, and I was feeling confident about my shot tonight so I liked them steppi... HANNA ZAVECZ I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON When you enter the room, you get a feel for the elements that you have to discover on your own; it's... JENNIFER MYERS There is no greater glory than to die for love. GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ As you become more rooted inside -- as you drink from this silent stream of life that runs beneath t... DEREK RYDALL When you see the value of continued growth, the circumstances around you become stepping stones. CLYDE M. NARRIMORE Just because you have kids doesn't mean to say you need time off. I have a lot of time off anywa... KATIE PRICE Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ... E.J. PATTEN At the age of thirty-seven, I was fat, and since the age of thirty-eight, I have never been fat agai... JEAN NIDETCH One reason to write a poem is to flush from the deep thickets of the self some thought, feeling, com... JANE HIRSHFIELD Turn every obstacles into a stepping stone to take you where you are going. Don't be discourage by t... PHILIP T. M. You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER I don't see my show as a stepping stone to something else like some people, who get a job then h... CRAIG FERGUSON The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS One of the disadvantages of poetry over popular music is that if you write a pop song, it naturally ... BILLY COLLINS 'Finally' actually started out as a poem. I always wrote poetry, and pretty soon I figured o... CECE PENISTON Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. We've been coming together a little bit better as a group. Things came easy for us early and we didn... KIRK KACZOR There's never going to be a decathlon that you're going to have 10 events that your satisfie... ASHTON EATON It's always going to be command. Again, having the extra velocity gives you a little bit more room f... TERRY FRANCONA Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of us... MARSHA SINETAR Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of usin... MARSHA SINETAR Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals - Think of usi... MARSHA SINETAR Life will give you mountains to climb; but always remember, those mountains are your stepping stones... SAM COLLINS JR. It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-ston... JODI PICOULT It's always a boost when you have a great defensive play. It gets your momentum going and gives the ... ALLIE SANCHEZ You have to have a big vision and take very small steps to get there. You have to be humble as you e... JASON CALACANIS Look, there's an element in acting where they hand you a script, and you know everything there is to... LANCE HENRIKSEN Get your work in, do what you need do, and get back up top. I'm a little bit behind the curve as... RYAN HOWARD Get your education, and if you see small opportunities, take them. Each one could be a stepping ston... TRISHA YEARWOOD One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks. JACK PENN You write a thought down because you want to see what next as a thought is going to come out. DEYTH BANGER That night when you kissed me, I left a poem in your mouth, and you can hear some of the lines every... ANDREA GIBSON If your teachers suggest that your poems are sentimental, that is only half of it. Your poems probab... MARY RUEFLE Oh happy day! A day to make a hay! And when it is mid-day, think about the day! And when you think a... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH When you have a revenue stream, being able to move forward on a project makes all the sense in the w... JAY BLANTON During the Gulf War, I remember two little third grade girls saying to me - after I read them some p... NAOMI SHIHAB NYE So I continued through my next school, which takes me up to the age of 17, moving from the bottom st... JEREMY IRONS Learning how to relive again on life's terms sure doesn't do much for your confidence. You h... JOE NICHOLS I think any time you have a workplace that's heavily weighted to men just by the nature of what ... ERIN DUFFY Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a... MA JIAN ...imagine that you hold in one hand an oddly shaped stone. You keep this hand closed into a fist, b... ASHIM SHANKER I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you ... WENDY COPE The most difficult phase in life is when we breakdown & give up the fight.Its because we deny oursel... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA I think the most important thing in life is self-love, because if you don't have self-love, and ... SHAILENE WOODLEY We have a lot of performers and they like to play in front of a crowd. Anytime you play in front of ... DEVIN SCRUGGS You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to rea... RAFAEL PALMEIRO You've never really trusted him, though you don't understand why. Something about the fact that he's... N.K. JEMISIN The place had enormous possibilities. He realized that at once. The stream, of course, was perfect f... DAVID EDDINGS It's what you do every time. You isolate what you know, and you create a mental image of what yo... ROBERT FORSTER If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS
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