I've been known to write 10 pages a day for 10 days running before I take a breath. I am not a disciplined writer. I'm one of those people who laughingly call themselves inspirational writers, which basically means someone who has no control over their own creative process.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

Categorized in : Day I Am People Inspirational

There is no wrong way to perform an act of kindness.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

acts-of-kindness kindness way

Because it proves that you don't need much to change the entire world for the better. You can start with the most ordinary ingredients. You can start with the world you've got.

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ordinary world needs

A genuine act of kindness makes me feel like I really am where you cut underneath anything external, and you become what a human being can really be. It’s like coming home when you give kindness. Kindness changes us, as human beings.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

cutting kindness home

... even though it was beautiful and comfortable, and even though it was the world, it was also a little bit boring. No, wait. Maybe boring isn’t the right word. What’s the word I’m wanting here? Lonely. That’s it. It was a little bit lonely.

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lonely waiting beautiful

I guess it's hard for people who are so used to things the way they are - even if they're bad - to change. 'Cause they kind of give up. And when they do, everybody kind of loses.

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pay-it-forward giving-up people

If it takes you apart, that's not love. Love puts you back together.

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back-together ifs together

Love always looks nice. I don't really know anyone who doesn't enjoy it when they see it. Anyone who doesn't, I don't really want to know them.

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nice want looks

Most people prefer to think that their resentment is entirely the fault of the person they resent, and that twisted logic seems to make sense in their minds. But it makes no sense to me at all... But it's a popular point of view. Probably because it's so much easier. It relieves you of the burden of any and all self-examination. (Nathan to Nat)

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self views thinking

We should all be much more careful with each other`s hearts.

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careful should heart

I think it's the things we don't talk about that make us old before out time.

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thinking

I keep telling you the future isn't set in stone. It's not all decided yet. The future is just what's down the road we decided to walk on today. You can change roads anytime. And that changes where you end up.

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ends stones today

Things are so easy to do, so hard to undo.

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hard easy

I decided that not talking is like a litmus test for a real friend. You can just sit there and be. Not always be filling up the air with words

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filling-up real air

A kiss, she thinks, has to be entirely balanced -- it has to have a little conflict, a little dialectic, a little revolution.

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kissing littles thinking

If you want to see a man come to his senses, try something like, Do you happen to carry a rubber in your wallet? Did I mention I'm not on the pill?

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trying men sex

Nobody said it was a beautiful world with no scars.

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scar beautiful world

The closer you get to heaven, the less air there is, because when you get to heaven for real, you don't need to breathe anymore.

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real air heaven

I try to think of a way to get there without going past it. There are lots of ways, but they all have me walking a little farther. And that's stupid, I decide. What am I, a little kid? I can stand to see something it hurts to want. I can see it and then just keep walking. It happens to lots of people everyday. We all survive.

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stupid hurt kids

When I write, my goal is to delve deeply enough into the human experience to find a sort of universality. Once you dig down underneath surface differences, we are all human beings. And all human beings want essentially the same things at our core. We want to love and be loved. We want to be safe. We want our loved ones to be safe.

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loved you experience love

If you can't pay it back, pay it forward.

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forward back you pay