We start out in our lives as little children, full of light and the clearest vision. — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
“...the best way to know the Truth or Beauty is to try to express it. And what is the purpose of existence… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two. — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true, and serious. — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Write a true, careless, slovenly impulsive, honest diary every day of your life. — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
We have come to think that duty should come first. I disagree. Duty should be a by-product. Writing, the creative effort, the… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
I readan article by a highly educated man wherein he told with what conscientious pains he had brought up all his children… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
The true self is always in motion like music, a river of life, changing, moving, failing, suffering, learning, shining. — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
The true self is always in motion like music, a river of life, changing, moving, failing, suffering, learning, shining. That is why… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
it is when you are really living in the present-working, thinking, lost, absorbed in something you care about very much, that you… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“[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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We start out in our lives as little children, full of light and the clearest vision. — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Inspiration comes to us slowly and quietly . prime it with a little solitude. — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
... to paint with oil paints for the first time ... is like trying to make something exquisitely accurate and microscopically clear out of… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
... 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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
