Gratitude is a state of being Gratitude makes you happier. Gratitude makes you healthier. Gratitude makes you a better person. Gratitude makes you present. Gratitude strenghthens your faith in the not-yet seen. Being in a state of gratitude is about having an awareness of, and a deep appreciation for, the many miracles of life. Write it down 1…. View Post
Psychology recognizes three basic types of functioning: Intellectual, means one whose authentic urge is to know. Emotive, to feel. Something becomes meaningful to them only when one feels it. Active, a creative type. He cannot remain with knowing or feeling, he has to create. Harry Burns doesn’t fall in love with Sally Albright at first sight. They have… View Post
Emotions are never permanent. Actually, emotion comes from ‘motion’, meaning movement. Now you are angry. Now you are happy. Now you are sad. And so on. There’s nothing wrong with feeling angry or expressing anger. However, understanding is liberating. Suppression means only trying to hide certain energies that are there, not allowing them to have their being, not allowing… View Post
Quote of the day “Dialogue, dramatized and narratized, performs three essential funcions: exposition, characterization, action.” -Robert McKee, Dialogue: The Art of Verbal Action for Page, Stage, and Screen. Video of the week: Conversations Writing 5 Reasons to Consider Using an Omniscient Narrator | Live Write Thrive The Four Things Your Protagonist Needs In Your Story | Jennifer Blanchard How Much… View Post
Aristotle says, ‘Happiness depends upon ourselves.’ Viktor Frankl says, ‘Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms–to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.’ Walt Whitman writes, ‘Keep your face always toward the sunshine–and shadows will fall behind you.’ I love what Aristotle, Viktor Frankl,… View Post
Quote of the day “Action is character; a person is what he does, not what he says… Because we’re telling a story in pictures, we must show how the character acts and reacts to the incidents and events that he/she confronts and overcomes (or doesn’t overcome) during the story line.” -Syd Field. Video of the week: Accion is character … View Post
Thoughts cause us misery. We use to identify ourselves with our thoughts. Freedom comes when we realize we are not our thoughts. The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it. Think that there are no random events, nor are there events or things that exist by and for themselves, in isolation. The atoms that… View Post