Inspirational Quotes by Brenda Ueland

“At least I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had. Not…

— Brenda Ueland

If I did not wear torn pants, orthopedic shoes, frantic disheveled hair, that is to say, if I did not tone down my beauty,…

— Brenda Ueland

“[4It is hard to be carefree when you have many anxieties. But the more you have, the more necessary it is to feel carefree…

— Brenda Ueland

“I will tell you what I have learned myself. For me, a long five- or six-mile walk helps. And one must go alone and…

— Brenda Ueland

Self-trust is so important. When you launch on a story, make your neck loose, feel free, good-natured. And be lazy. Feel that you are…

— Brenda Ueland

We start out in our lives as little children, full of light and the clearest vision.

— Brenda Ueland

Inspiration comes to us slowly and quietly . prime it with a little solitude.

— Brenda Ueland

... to paint with oil paints for the first time ... is like trying to make something exquisitely accurate and microscopically clear out of…

— Brenda Ueland

running is the right thing to do! I am free, healthy with a good complexion. It is that automobile addict who should be ashamed:…

— Brenda Ueland

The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny; whose…

— Brenda Ueland

... when I am really alone some power seems to grow in me. ... Conjugality made me think of a three-legged race, where two…

— Brenda Ueland

“In the same way there is much, much in all of us, but we do not know it. No one ever calls it out…

— Brenda Ueland

When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.

— Brenda Ueland

“...the best way to know the Truth or Beauty is to try to express it. And what is the purpose of existence Here or…

— Brenda Ueland

Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.

— Brenda Ueland