Alive Quote by Brenda Ueland

“When we commit ourselves to writing for some part of each day, we are happier, more enlightened, alive, light-hearted and generous to everyone else. Even our health improves.”

Brenda Ueland

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (9 ratings)

Alive Commit Each day Enlightened Generous Happiness Health Hearted Light Light hearted Writing

More 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

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

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

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

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

Image

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

Brenda Ueland

Image

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

Brenda Ueland

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

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

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

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

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

Image

Explore all 121 Brenda Ueland quotes

More Alive quotes

I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,…

Bruce Springsteen

Image

I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.

Adam Ant

Image

I don't crave applause. I'm not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I'm much more alive at home, I think.

David Bowie

Image

We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that…

Tariq Ramadan