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Kathleen McCarthy, senior editor, Be Inkandescent magazine

A freelance editor and writer in the mental health field for the last 20 years, Kathleen McCarthy is the senior editor for Be Inkandescent Magazine, and also writes the magazine’s Parenting column.

In 2012, Kathleen became the manager of the new speakers bureau, InkandescentSpeakers.com, an international organization of small business experts that travel around the globe to provide best practices to entrepreneurs.

She also handles the editing, design, and layout for the monthly online newsletter of the American Mental Health Counselors Association.

As a freelance writer and editor, her clients have included government agencies, corporations, and universities. Before becoming a freelancer, she worked for several nonprofit associations, including the American Psychological Association, the National Association of College and University Business Officers, and the American Association for Engineering Education.

A deadline fanatic, Kathleen is zealous about the virtues of the serial comma and admires writers who can translate dense topics into artful prose. In her spare time, she likes to diagram sentences.

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”

– Albert Einstein

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”

– Marcel Proust

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
 A terrible thing: no one to blame.”

– Erica Jong

We never know how high we are
 till we are called to rise;
 And then, if we are true to plan,
 Our statures touch the skies.”

– Emily Dickinson

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

– Carl Rogers

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”

– General Omar Bradley

If you would create something,
 you must be something.”

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”

– Martha Beck

If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”

– Oprah Winfrey

I was taught at a very young age that you can do whatever you want to, but you have to make it happen — not just talk about it.”

– Kathleen Jo Ryan

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

– William Butler Yeats

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
 what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”

– General Omar Bradley

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”

– J. Kristnhamurti, The First and Last Freedom

Let us seize the day and the opportunity and strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.”

– W.E.B. Du Bois

The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”

– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter

No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.”

– Martha Beck, from "Leaving the Saints"

To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”

– Edward Bulwer Lytton

Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”

– Victor Kiam

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”

– Eckhart Tolle

Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”

– Madam C.J. Walker

Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.”

– Steve Jobs

Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”

– Eve Ensler

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”

– Jesse Jackson

The journey is the reward.”

– Greg Norman

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”

– Voltaire

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

– Nelson Mandela

Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”

– Victor Hugo

If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”

– Zig Ziglar

There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”

– John Lennon

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.”

– Langston Hughes

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”

– Henry David Thoreau

Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”

– Victor Kiam

Do you have the desire to create something new; the strength of conviction to believe your creation will be successful, and the reservoir of energy necessary to thrust it into the marketplace?”

– Steven Schussler

My goal was to tell the life side of the story. We have become a nation of voyeurs that expect sensationalism, and that offends me.”

– Kathleen Jo Ryan

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

– Winston Churchill

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

– Robert Frost

The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”

– Cecil B. DeMille

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

– Carl Rogers

Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”

– Basil King

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”

– Audre Lorde

The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”

– William James

He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”

– African Proverb

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”

– Helen Keller

Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”

– Sarah Ban Breathnach

“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.”

– Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc.

Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”

– Francesca Reigle

I don’t do very well without fear. There needs to be a part of me saying, ‘That’s going to fail,’ so I can prove myself wrong.”

– Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”

– Benjamin Disraeli