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"Do one thing every day that scares you."
Eleanor Roosevelt

"Whether you think you can, or think you can't, you're right."
Henry Ford

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life"
Pablo Picasso

"The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them."
— Maya Angelou

"To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due." -- Neil Gaiman

"There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle"
Albert Einstein

"Stories, like people and butterflies and songbirds' eggs and human hearts and dreams, are also fragile things, made up of nothing stronger or more lasting than twenty-six letters and a handful of punctuation marks. Or they are words on the air, composed of sounds and ideas-abstract, invisible, gone once they've been spoken-and what could be more frail than that? But some stories, small, simple ones about setting out on adventures or people doing wonders, tales of miracles and monsters, have outlasted all the people who told them, and some of them have outlasted the lands in which they were created."
— Neil Gaiman (Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders)

"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star."
-Nietzsche

"Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination."
Albert Einstein

"Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!" — Andrew Carnegie

"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing." - Albert Einstein

"Waves of light travel through an air of brief moments and the memory of your eyes is the most violent sculptor"
Unknown turn of the century science fiction novelist

"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." Dr. Seuss

"So let’s stop. Let’s stop hemming and hawing. Let’s stop doing a soft shoe around who we are and what we call ourselves. Let’s learn to take both critiques and compliments. Let’s put our name on the door. Be who you are becoming. Start now."
Rachelle Mee-Chapman

"I am an artist... I am here to live out loud."
Emile Zola

"Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge."
- Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia

"Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul."
— Joyce Carol Oates

"And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it." — Roald Dahl

Magic and miracles

"And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it." — Roald Dahl

"Stories, like people and butterflies and songbirds' eggs and human hearts and dreams, are also fragile things, made up of nothing stronger or more lasting than twenty-six letters and a handful of punctuation marks. Or they are words on the air, composed of sounds and ideas-abstract, invisible, gone once they've been spoken-and what could be more frail than that? But some stories, small, simple ones about setting out on adventures or people doing wonders, tales of miracles and monsters, have outlasted all the people who told them, and some of them have outlasted the lands in which they were created."
— Neil Gaiman (Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders)

Confidence

Somehow I can't believe there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C's. They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy and the greatest of these is Confidence. When you believe a thing, believe it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably. ~Walt Disney~

Building Castles

"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds."
G. K. Chesterton

Dream

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

- Goethe

The Path To Creativity

"It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise." – Goethe


"Getting started, keeping going, getting started again -- in art and in life, it seems to me this is the essential rhythm...." -- Seamus Heaney

Step by Step

Louisa May Alcott once said, "Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."

"...courage is only an accumulation of small steps." -- George Konrad


"To take the first step in faith, you don't have to see the whole
staircase: just take the first step." Martin Luther King

Not The Critic

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly.
So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." - T. Roosevelt

Truth

"The soul is the perciever of truth,
We know truth when we see it."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Blessed are the ears that do not hear the truth sounding without,
but hear clearly the voice within teaching the truth."
Thomas a Kempis

Soul Mates

"Union is only possible to those who are units."
Margaret Fuller, "Women in the 19th Century",1844, a classic of feminist thought

The Circle

"He drew a circle that shut me out.
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.
But Love and I had the wit to win;
We drew a circle that took him in."
Edwin Markham



"Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true!"
Edwin Markham

Quote

Divine Inspiration

"I've been no more than a medium, as it were."
Henri Matisse

Everything vanishes around me, and my works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will."
Paul Klee

"Like every writer, I am asked where my work originates, and if I knew I would go there more often to find more."
Henry Miller

"I have been surprised at the observations made by some of my characters. It seems as if an occult Power was moving the pen. The personage does or says something, and I ask, how the dickens did he come up with that?"
William Makepeace Thackeray

Chance and Discovery

"One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time."
Andre Gide

"Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish."
Ovid

"Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind."
Louis Pasteur

"A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind."
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars."
Les Brown

Imagination

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Albert Einstein

Inspired

"The poet is a light and winged and holy thing and there is no invention in him until he's been inspired and is out of his senses, and the mind is no longer in him."
Socrates

Picasso

"The important thing is to create. Nothing else matters; creation is all."
Pablo Picasso

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
Pablo Picasso

"The painter's studio should be a laboratory. There one does not make art in the manner of a monkey, one invents. Painting is a play of the mind."
Pablo Picasso

Art and The Soul

"In the heart of the artist is a studio. The soul works constantly there, shuttling between heaven and hell, spirit and matter. Each moment, every sound, vision, taste, smell and feeling is a brilliant creation dynamically colored with emotion and meaning. In reverie, the artist enters the studio of the heart and is awed by the soul's work. The artist then labors to bring these revelations into tangible form. Angels and demons compete to lift the artist's hand."
Alex Grey

This artist has written several books on the subject of creative inspiration and some of his passages are most extraordinary.