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I like to work in watercolor, with as little under-drawing as I can get away with. I like the unpredictability of a medium which is affected as much by humidity, gravity, the way that heavier particles in the wash settle into the undulations of the paper surface, as by whatever I wish to do with it. In other mediums you have more control, you are responsible for every mark on the page — but with watercolor you are in a dialogue with the paint, it responds to you and you respond to it in turn. Printmaking is also like this, it has an unpredictable element. This encourages an intuitive response, a spontaneity which allows magic to happen on the page. When I begin an illustration, I usually work up from small sketches — which indicate in a simple way something of the atmosphere or dynamics of an illustration; then I do drawings on a larger scale supported by studies from models — usually friends — if figures play a large part in the picture. When I've reached a stage where the drawing looks good enough I'll transfer it to watercolor paper, but I like to leave as much unresolved as possible before starting to put on washes. This allows for an interaction with the medium itself, a dialogue between me and the paint. Otherwise it is too much like painting by number, or a one-sided conversation.
— Alan Lee
In the same way there is much, much in all of us, but we do not know it. No one ever calls it out in us, unless we are lucky enough to know intelligent, imaginative, sympathetic people who love us and have the magnanimity to encourage us, to believe in us, by listening, by praise, by appreciation, by laughing. If you are going to write, you must become aware of this richness in you and come to believe in it and know it is there so that you can write opulently with with self-trust. Once you become aware of it, have faith in it, you will be all right. But it is like this: if you have a million dollars in the bank and don't know, it doesn't so you any good.
— Brenda Ueland
Creation is bringing potential into being, bringing inspiration into action. Inspiration and action are nothing when they are apart. Inspiration feels like a great a wondrous thing, but if it is not manifested, it is as if it never existed. Likewise, action without inspiration has no purpose. It is only when they are together as one that they are truly something.
— Kristi Bowman, Journey to One: A Woman's Story of Emotional Healing and Spiritual Awakening
As she stared at them, Waringa noted that their skins were indeed red, like that of pigs or like the skin of a black person who has been scalded with boiling water or who has burned himself with acid creams. Even the hair in their arms and necks stood out stiff and straight like the bristle of an aging hog.
— Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Devil on the Cross
Everyone who dies out there dies of confusion.
— Laurence Gonzales, Deep Survival - Who Lives, Who Dies and Why
Tomorrow is another opportunity to improve yourself
— Scott A. Reighard
The tears are falling freely now, and I don't care if he sees them. They're tears of relief for my nephew, worry for my grandfather and my brother, and shame for my mistake. I figure I earned them.
— Teresa R. Funke, V for Victory
High PastureCome up--come up: in the dim vale belowThe autumn mist muffles the fading trees,But on this keen hill-pasture, though the breezeHas stretched the thwart boughs bare to meet the snow,Night is not, autumn is not--but the flowOf vast, ethereal and irradiate seas,Poured from the far world's flaming boundariesIn waxing tides of unimagined glow.And to that height illumined of the mindhe calls us still by the familiar way,Leaving the sodden tracks of life behind,Befogged in failure, chilled with love's decay--Showing us, as the night-mists upward wind,How on the heights is day and still more day.
— Edith Wharton
Into adulthood through which everyone is always in a different way. Do not feel left out because of it. So, do not worry about it. Since everyone has experienced the same thing.
— Ziyah
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— ifdal sukri
Но Остап приходил каждый вечер, хотя радостных вестей не приносил. Энергия и веселость его были неисчерпаемы. Надежда ни на одну минуту не покидала его.
— Ильф и Петров
I've been strongly influenced, in technique as well as subject matter, by some of the early 20th-century book illustrators — Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac in particular, Burne-Jones and other Pre-Raphaelites, and the Arts-&-Crafts movement they engendered. I'm continually inspired by Rembrandt, Breughel (I've wondered whether his brilliant "Tower of Babel" had inspired Tolkien's description of Minas Tyrith), Hieronymous Bosch, Albrecht Durer, and Turner; it's not necessarily that they influence my work in any particular direction, more that their example raises my spirits, re-affirms my belief in the power of images to move and delight us, and shows me how much further I have to go, how much is possible. Having visited Venice and Florence for the first time, I am besotted with the Italian Renaissance artists — Botticelli, Bellini, da Vinci and others. Their work is calm, controlled, and yet each face and landscape contains such passion. In Botticelli's paintings, every pebble and every leaf is rendered with a religious devotion; there is reverence inherent in paying such close attention to every stone, turning painting itself into a form of worship, an act of prayer.
— Alan Lee
There are things you can change, the ones you can accomodate the ones you must avoid and the ones you definitely cannot do anything about. If you surrender all of them to JESUS the LORD, HE would give you Peace and Love in return.
— James C. Uwandu, Almost the Whole Thing
Hazel always used to say There's not enough darkness in the entire universe to snuff out the light of just one little candle.
— Fannie Flagg, I Still Dream About You
We all are rich and ignore the buried fact of accumulated wisdom.
— Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing
Imagine that you are dying. If you had a terminal disease would you ­finish this book? Why not? The thing that annoys this 10-weeks-to-live self is the thing that is wrong with the book. So change it. Stop arguing with yourself. Change it. See? Easy. And no one had to die.
— Anne Enright
When the horror recedes and the world resumes its normal shape, you cannot forget it. You have seen what is "really" there, the empty horror that exists when the consoling illusion of our mundane experience is stripped away, so you can never respond to the world in quite the same way again."from Coleridge: Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread
— Karen Armstrong, The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness
Sex is the most important sort of adult play. If you can't relax here you never will
— Alex Comfort
To be communal is to be something fallacious. It is to be something more or less than being, a subjugation or propagation of the self to exist within the external condition.
— Dew Platt, Failure&solitude
Novelty and Security: the security of novelty, the novelty of security. Always the full thing, the whole subject, the true subject, stood just behind the one you found yourself contemplating. The trick, but it wasn't a trick, was to take up at once the thing you saw and the reason you saw it as well; to always bite off more than you could chew, and then chew it. If it were self-indulgence for him to cut and polish his semiprecious memories, and yet seem like danger, like a struggle he was unfit for, then self-indulgence was a potent force, he must examine it, he must reckon with it.
— John Crowley, Novelty: Four Stories
Devereaux is going with our pitch.”“Hey, that’s just great,” I said superperkily. “Wendell’s or mine?”“Yours.”“But you want to fire me. So fire me.”“We can’t fire you. They loved you. The head guy, Leonard Daly, thought you were, I quote, ‘agreat kid, very courageous’ and a natural to do a whispering campaign. He said you hadbelievability.”“That’s too bad.”“Why? You’re not quitting!”I thought about it. “Not if you don’t want me to. Do you?”Go on, say it.298 ♥elavanilla♥“No.”“No what?”“No, we don’t want you to quit.”“Ten grand more, two assistants, and charcoal suits. Take it or leave it.”Ariella swallowed. “Okay to the money, okay to the assistants, but I can’t green-light charcoalsuits. Formula Twelve is Brazilian, we need carnival colors.”“Charcoal suits or I’m gone.”“Orange.”“Charcoal.”“Orange.”“Charcoal.”“Okay, charcoal.”It was an interesting lesson in power. The only time you truly have it is when you genuinelydon’t care whether you have it or not.“Right,” I said. “I’m giving myself the rest of the day off.
— Marian Keyes, Anybody Out There?
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers, so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
— Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise
If your creation is taking 99% perspiration, it stinks and you need more inspiration.
— Kelly Bryson, Don't Be Nice, Be Real: Balancing Passion for Self with Compassion for Others
Senor Sempere believed that God lives, to a smaller or greater extent, in books, and that is why he devoted his life to sharing them, to protecting them, and to making sure their pages, like our memories and our desires, are never lost.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game
Scripture breathes wisdom like we breathe oxygen. It can't not. Through Scripture, God reveals himself. This wisdom cannot be captured, let alone contained, on a neon bumper sticker or rubber bracelet. Wisdom itself invites us to go deeper- right into a relationship with God himself.Through wisdom, we learn to love God and love what he loves. We find rich counsel on the life we were meant for- in our families, communities, and world. We discover our personal responsibilities to others. And we unearth how to put love into action." -Organic God
— Margaret Feinberg, The Organic God
You took life by the horns and tried to hold on tight, for fear of being ripped to shreds, left bloodied and battered.
— Holly Hood, Polar
I feel like a millionaire on the back of an armored jet-ski my samurai girlfriend who loves me is charging at a cartel speedboat to win a game of chicken. Isn’t this the day’s best part? You don’t even have to remember to enjoy it. It enjoys you into itself.
— Adam Levin, The Instructions
Admirer quelqu'un, s'inspirer de son parcours, c'est avant tout grandir et devenir soi.
— Amandine Roche, Nomade sur la voie d'Ella Maillart
His (Samuel Coleridge) dark senses were constantly in play, the frustration of them bringing illness. Weather and organic nature combined in a synaesthetic multi-media event, and this was the ground of all perception before it was divded up in daily living: the Primary Imagination giving way to the Secondary. Poetry was forever seeking a conscious return to this state, which existed all the time, whether he knew it or not.
— Peter Redgrove, The Black Goddess and the Unseen Real: Our Uncommon Senses and Their Common Sense
We yearn for there to be meaning to our lives, balanced with a sense of inner peace & joy.
— Allan Lokos, Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living
Novelty. Security. Novelty wouldn't be a bad title. It had the grandness of abstraction, alerting the reader that large and thoughtful things were to be bodied forth. As yet he had no inkling of any incidents or characters that might occupy his theme; perhaps he never would. He could see though the book itself, he could feel its closed heft and see it opened, white pages comfortably large and shadowed gray by print; dense, numbered, full of meat. He sensed a narrative voice, speaking calmly and precisely, with immense assurance building, building; a voice too far off for him to hear, but speaking. ("Novelty")
— John Crowley, American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940's Until Now
Religions are metaphorical systems that give us bigger containers in which to hold our lives. A spiritual life allows us to move beyond the ego into something more universal. Religious experience carries us outside of clock time into eternal time. We open ourselves into something more complete and beautiful. This bigger vista is perhaps the most magnificent aspect of a religious experience.There is a sense in which Karl Marx was correct when he said that religion is the opiate of the people. However, he was wrong to scoff at this. Religion can give us skills for climbing up on onto a ledge above our suffering and looking down at it with a kind and open mind. This helps us calm down and connect to all of the world's sufferers. Since the beginning of human time, we have yearned for peace in the face of death, loss, anger and fear. In fact, it is often trauma that turns us toward the sacred, and it is the sacred that saves us.
— Mary Pipher, Seeking Peace: Chronicles of the Worst Buddhist in the World
The words of his various writing instructors and professional mentors over the years came back to him at times like these, and he found a new understanding in their advice: Writing is rewriting. The rough draft is just that. You can’t polish what you haven’t written. Things that made for a normal life—like a daily routine that followed the sun—took a back seat to times like these, and he exulted in that change because it served as proof that his writing was indeed the most important thing in his life. It wasn’t a conscious choice on his part, like deciding to repaint the bathroom or go buy the groceries, but an overarching reallocation of his existence that was as undeniable as breathing. Day turned into night, breakfast turned into dinner, and the laptop or the writing tablet beckoned even when he was asleep. He would often awake with a new idea—as if he’d merely been on a break and not unconscious—and he would see the empty seat before the desk not as his station in some pointless assembly line, but as the pilot’s seat in a ship that could go anywhere.
— Vincent H. O'Neil, Death Troupe
Mon Dieu donne-moi la sérénité d’accepter toutes les choses que je ne peux changer. Donne-moi le courage de changer les choses que je peux changer et la sagesse d’en connaître la différence.
— Moines du moyen âge
One night I was layin' down,I heard Papa talkin' to Mama,I heard Papa say to let that boy boogie-woogie.'Cause it's in him and it's got to come out.
— John Lee Hooker
Shino looked at me straight in the eye and smiled, her face brimming with a kind of inner strength. That strength seemed to gather the beads of perspiration that glistened on her brow, then sprang from her face and leapt across to my heart with a rhythm like ripples on water.
— Tetsuo Miura, Shame in the Blood
No wonder I want to be Robert Mitchum: big, strong, super-cool, with those Freon eyes of his. That's who I was pretending to be a minute ago - Robert Mitchum in Out of the Past. - Ben
— Ron Koertge, Now Playing: Stoner & Spaz II
Without devotion any life becomes a stranger's story...told for the body to forget what it once loved.
— Marie Howe, The Good Thief
No wizard has ever made himself useful by magic, or, if they've tried, they've only made matters worse. No wizard ever stopped a war or mended a fence. It's better that they stay in their marshes, out of the way of worldly folk like farmers and soldiers and merchants and kings.
— Kelly Link, Pretty Monsters: Stories
The Nobel Prize is the best thing that can happen to a writer in terms of how it affects your contracts, the publishers, and the seriousness with which your work is taken. On the other hand, it does interfere with your private life, or it can if you let it, and it has zero effect on the writing.It doesn't help you write better and if you let it, it will intimidate you about future projects.
— Toni Morrison
The Legend of the Firefish,first in the Trophy Chase Trilogy by George Bryan Polivka, is a winner....filled with action,adventure, danger, intrigue,surprise,suspense....The characters Polivka created are fresh and interesting....A must read for fantasy lovers, and a highly recommended drating for others who want a good story. Rebecca LuElla Miller A Christian Worldview of Fiction Website
— George Bryan Polivka
Data that comes subliminally and is acted upon will look like luck or inspiration.
— Peter Redgrove, The Black Goddess and the Unseen Real: Our Uncommon Senses and Their Common Sense
If people are troubled by their view, they ought to offer these New Orleanians, and black and poor people in the places like the Lower Ninth Ward around the country, a reason to believe otherwise.
— Billy Sothern, Down in New Orleans: Reflections from a Drowned City
Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.
— Walter Gropius
If any accolades come in the writing of this story, all praise will be His, all Glory will rightly go to Him. If He will allow me to share some part in this, I am truly humbled.
— Lynn Dove, Shoot the Wounded
You’re human. You can’t be a “motivational speaker” every damn day of your life. It’s okay to have dark days. Allow yourself to go there, then come back up with a gusto, like you always do. You’re an angel, but you’re also human. Don’t beat yourself up for being authentic.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
Where you are is merely a point along the path to where you are going.
— Tony   Cleaver
I am often asked what made me the way I am. And my answer is always this: I've always been me. It just took awhile to find me under all the rubble.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
I try to be a positive light in this cold dark world... if only with a few words from deep within my heart, I try
— Nyki Mack
I lived for so long without you, only dreaming of the concept of you. And, now that I know you, I can't imagine going back there... to a me that didn't know your name.
— Liz  Newman, Hope Between Heartbeats
Cognitive Intelligence defines a person's personality trait who utilizes critical thinking based on empirical evidence, logics and thorough understanding of the information during an intellectual argument or an educational setting where they acquire brand new concepts.
— Saaif Alam
Your obstacles are not your end. Please remember that, and try again.
— Sabrina Newby
What is Fulfillment? Fulfillment is being Blissfully Content...with Pleasure and Peace...with Calmness and Courage...with Joy and Love.
— RVM
The only limitations you have are those limitations you accept.
— Clyde Lee Dennis
That person staring back at you when you look in the mirror... that's your competition.
— Clyde Lee Dennis
You cannot win at that which you never start.
— Clyde Lee Dennis
You never know what's going to inspire you, until suddenly it does.
— Clyde Lee Dennis
Either be a good parent to your career or just give your dream up for adoption.
— Loren Weisman, The Artist's Guide to Success in the Music Business: The “Who, What, When, Where, Why & How” of the Steps that Musicians & Bands Have to Take to Succeed in Music
You may not be able to change people’s Actions, but you can choose your own Reactions. Always react Positively and be Happy!
— RVM
Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will.
— Vernon Howard
I don't sit around waiting for passion to strike me. I keep working steadily, because I believe it is our privilege as humans to keep making things. Most of all, I keep working because I trust that creativity is always trying to find me, even when I have lost sight of it.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
Every wicked act is a snare.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
To grow you must not gain something but instead get rid of all the things that have held you back.
— Avina Celeste
What can a man do for a woman while she live her life? You can only show her that you love her.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Motivation doesn't work, Your decisions do!
— Farshad Asl
Art and disease proliferate via contagion, and similar conditions favor both.
— Ted Gioia, How to Listen to Jazz
Put your ears to the ground, to the sky, to the sun and the moon... tune in to Mother Earth's sweet song. She has messages to say, knowledge to relay, inspiration to convey... there is much for you to learn. Your journey has just begun.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
A definition of a term indicates its original meaning from the language the person reads, writes and speaks in daily life settings. However, an intellectual persons interpretation and perspective can modify its context so he or she can sound creative and compelling when he or she educates his or her audience by forming a connection with a particular vocabulary word scholars/ innovative thinkers would use specifically in a particular field of study.
— Saaif Alam
Attitude at work shows attitude in life. If you want to know how people are doing in their lives, watch how they perform in their work. Do they have full commitment in giving their best to whatever they do? Do they treat their very act of being involved in an activity seriously? You can see that people who work halfheartedly are the very same people who get halfhearted results in life. The truth is we are always in a game because life is a game. We either play to win or not.Those who are serious about winning are the ones who do. Most people want to have fun playing the game, but winners are the ones who want to have serious fun. The most fun you can have in anything you do is by playing to win & by winning. The irony of life is that those who are not serious about life, end up in situations that are not funny. Winning results from the intention to win. The stronger your intent to win, the more your probabilities of winning. Playing to win mindset is considered obsolete by many, but you will see that whenever two evenly matched players are competing head to head, the one who is more intent on winning is the one who does. Individuals with strong intention of winning are able to overcome tougher challenges.Intention to win is important.Play to win.
— Ron Malhotra
By not stepping into your greatness, you are letting down everyone around you whom you can inspire, touch, or influence.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
I always say that my success has been three parts support and encouragement from my amazing network and one part piss and vinegar.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
If you were stranded in the ocean in a small boat with a paddle, I’d tell you to pray to God, but row for the shore!
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
Nothing will give you emotional laryngitis like living in close proximity to someone who refuses to listen. Having emotions but no voice chokes the life out of relationships.
— Lysa TerKeurst, Uninvited
Are you joining a conversation or taking it over? Stay aware of how you join a conversation and of your effect on a conversation.
— Loren Weisman, The Artist's Guide to Success in the Music Business: The “Who, What, When, Where, Why & How” of the Steps that Musicians & Bands Have to Take to Succeed in Music
Blind cat jumps with faith you should too.
— Marcia Meier, Heart on a Fence
You had the courage to try and what you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do. 
— Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
The secret does not lie in the perfection of your path, but in recognizing its imperfection.
— Krist Pauwels, Your Work and Your Life: Towards a True Win-Win
If your beliefs are not useful to you, or they are not bringing you peace and abundance, update them!
— Kim Ha Campbell, Inner Peace Outer Abundance
Born in 1987 in Malawi, William grew up in a village with no electricity or running water, and in a family that barely survived on the food it grew with a little left over to pay for school. After a terrible drought in 2001, William had to drop out of school because his family could no longer afford his school fees. He kept educating himself by going to the library and reading everything he could. One day, he found a book on windmills and determined he'd build one. So he did. Starting with scrap parts he found in light bulbs and radios. William built the first windmill he or his village had ever seen. And it worked, generating electricity for his family and his neighbors.Williamkamkwamba.com
— Chelsea Clinton, It's Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired & Get Going!
Gratitude opens your eyes to the endless opportunities that expectation has hidden.
— Steve Maraboli
Now is the time for you to truly live again, to laugh again, to love again, and to trust again. Your season of pain and struggle has come to an end. This is your season, this is your moment, take hold of everything that God has in store for you!
— Theresa Lewis
Don't worry about what others think of you. It doesn't matter as long as you have your own Convictions and are proud of what you do.
— RVM
Most people talk, but say nothing. That’s ok because nobody is listening anyway. Let today be the day you stop with words and take ACTION! Shut-up and say something with your behavior... Dream. Plan. Act.
— Steve Maraboli
moonlight the falsest the most languid the most petit-bourgeoisstrikes meI like it
— Nazim Hikmet
We all have our fears. Anyone who says otherwise is probably scared of admitting it.
— Alex Staniforth, Icefall: The True Story of a Teenager on a Mission to the Top of the World
Playing it safe might not have hurt anyone, but it wouldn’t have inspired many, either.
— Alex Staniforth, Icefall: The True Story of a Teenager on a Mission to the Top of the World
Take a tram ride today. Recognise a dear friend in everyone around.  Speak kindly to yourself. It is only your thoughts that bring you fear. You've been through a lot.  There is perfect peace in this moment.
— Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D., Sleepers: A Little Book on How to Find Hope, Meaning and the Courage to Fall in Love with Your Dreams
She chose messy, she chose wild. She chose life on her own terms.
— Liz  Newman, Hope Between Heartbeats
Throwing yourself into the purse of a dream is the biggest adventure you can take on.
— Charlotte Eriksson
Trying to explain feelings that are foreign to your heart, make communication daunting, even frightful. How does one express sensations that cower in the corners, fearful they will not be accepted by their inspiration?
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find'…never were any truer words spoken.
— Nicholas M. Cuono Sr., This Is His House and These Are His Rules
I am deep. therefore you can't wade in the kiddie pool and expect to find me." - Alfa"And I've never wanted to drown until now." - JmStorm
— Alfa H
How to raise sons who respect women:Never give them the opportunity to see you disrespect yourself.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
Gratitude is the kindling for Peace.
— Tara L Lemméy
Don’t let the present pass in sorrow, hoping that the future will be full of Joy.
— RVM
A bookshop is a peaceful sanctuary of silent voices waiting to heard
— Mala Naidoo
If everyone only gave a fraction of the compassion their hearts are capable of giving... how much suffering could we alleviate in this world?
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
Your ability to make me feel like I was less than I was, took awhile to recover from. But after ripping my own self worth to shreds for so long, I realized that I wasn't less just because I was more than your inexperienced hands could handle.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
I want you. I want you inside and out. The parts you cover with laughter. The depth you shrug off with indifference. I want you. I want you to take me to the place you've hidden your heart. I want to walk by your side on this journey. You're worth it. We're worth it. Because... I want you.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
Sometimes the only way forward is to let go and sometimes those things you are forced to let go of are people and places that have been of great significance. Life is painfully uncanny like that, some moments last a lifetime whilst others have an expiry date.
— Nikki Rowe
The truth is sometimes lost in translation when the facts are not understood
— Jennifer L. Armentrout, Every Last Breath
Delegation of kindness is an epidemic of success
— Goitsemang Mvula
I used to worry about tomorrow, but that was before I survived yesterday. Now it's one breath at a time.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
Calling for change and being part of making change are two very different things. Stop calling for change and be a part of making the change you want to see.
— Loren Weisman, The Artist's Guide to Success in the Music Business: The “Who, What, When, Where, Why & How” of the Steps that Musicians & Bands Have to Take to Succeed in Music
You can want, wish, and dream all day, but those that prepare, work, learn, practice, and problem-solve are the ones that find success in sports, business, music, or whatever.Back up what you want with doing the work it takes to get it.
— Loren Weisman, The Artist's Guide to Success in the Music Business: The “Who, What, When, Where, Why & How” of the Steps that Musicians & Bands Have to Take to Succeed in Music
The inner child never wants to hurt anyone your inner child always comes from a place of love. 
— Kim Ha Campbell, Inner Peace Outer Abundance
By Sharing you don't become Poor . . . you become Rich. For the more you Share, the more shall you Receive.
— RVM
A sound idea is a form of energy. It can not be destroyed. It evolves from inspiration, to a function of preparation, then determination - till the ideator's dream becomes actualized in real lifeAt the very least, success is a second iteration of the original, unscripted IdeaSo your idea refinement process needs to be test-drivenTestDetermine on time if investment in terms of effort and time is worth itWork SmartFail early, fail often,Success lies on the paths yet to be treaded,Open your mind,Think Disruption,Be FlexibleBe AGILEI think this is an idea worth sharing
— Eniitan Akinola
It’s not about the amount of time you put in, it is the way you spend the time on the work you need to get done. Saying that you worked ten hours on something that went nowhere is not really anything to brag about.
— Loren Weisman, The Artist's Guide to Success in the Music Business: The “Who, What, When, Where, Why & How” of the Steps that Musicians & Bands Have to Take to Succeed in Music
True happiness is a gift from God, find your happy place and stay there.
— Theresa Lewis, Rising Above Adversity: Finding God's Purpose Through Your Pain
You have dirty hands and dark wild eyes, but by far you are the purest heart I have ever known.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
Your soul is so bohemian, free and gypsy wild. Come swim with me in the calming sea, let's be mermaids for awhile.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
Challenges turned the eye inward to empower a renewed self for an enhanced future.
— Mala Naidoo
The Truth must dazzle graduallyOr every man be blind - Emily Dickinson
— Emily Dickinson
Reading is air in my lungs, fire in my blood, company in my thoughts.
— Mala Naidoo
Old soul. Poet's heart. Warriors mind.
— Melody  Lee
Once our souls collided and caught fire, there was no turning back. Love is a collision of two stars -- it's as simple and as complicated as that.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
You think you know me, I've barely peeled back one layer.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
A bad dream can ruin your night, but a dream not chased can ruin your life.
— Connor Chalfant
A good writer is also an avid reader. A good reader is also a vivid dreamer. A good dreamer is also a good learner. And a good learner is definitely a good listener. A good listener is always looking to what the heart speaks. A spoken heart talks directly to a silent soul. And a silent soul is most of the time in pace with a peaceful thought. A peaceful thought is also a good writer...
— Ana Claudia Antunes, The Tao of Physical and Spiritual
Is this what I am doing now?Watching the currents, passagesof life around me.I am not looking for books to explainmore with their words, butlistening to poets with their imagery, symbols, listening to my own feelings as Icontinue my pilgrimage in this life,pausing, watching, catching glimpsesof deeper down things.-Deeper Down Things
— Robert Trabold, Watching the River Flow By: Selected Poems
I have never seen as far, than those times I have looked through someone else's perspective.
— Tonny K. Brown
Nonetheless, writing regularly, inspiration or no, is not a bad way to eventually get into an inspired mood; the plane has to bump along the runway for a while before it finally takes off.
— Alice W. Flaherty, The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain
I dream into my future.
— Virginia Phillips
Put the two of us together and we become like moonlight and fireflies... all burning and glowing and lighting up the night.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
Sometimes crisis triggers the genius within
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
While you were busy working on your ego, she was busy working on her soul.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
A tiny bit of brilliance rubs off on you every time you interact with someone brilliant.
— Hrishikesh Agnihotri
You are given weaknessesso you can learn to become stronger.
— Timothy Joshua
I don't compete against other women. To uplift others means I'm never looking down on them. I applaud their strength, and I remind them that we never know how strong we are until we are tested. And this life will test you... But it's not a competition. I want us all to make it.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
Let them howl. Let the wolves pant. You have evolved. You were not fashioned to run in a pack, or to be defined by the opinions of those who wish to limit your creativity. Let them howl. Let the wolves pant.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
She's not stumbling, she's not lost. She's simply romancing her inner animal and falling in love with the wild part of her soul.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
The point is, art never stopped a war and never got anybody a job. That was never its function. Art cannot change events. But it can change people. It can affect people so that they are changed... because people are changed by art – enriched, ennobled, encouraged – they then act in a way that may affect the course of events... by the way they vote, they behave, the way they think.
— Leonard Bernstein
Those who take Risks overcome their Fears and Tears over the Years.
— RVM
ზოგჯერ დავიღლები, დამიდუნდებიან ღონიერი მკლავები, გულიც დამეღლება და საკმარისია დავფიქრდე - გადავცდე მიჯნას ჩვეულებრივს, შევხვდე პოეზიას და სილამაზეს და ქრება დაღლა. ზღაპრული სიჩქარით შუქი ავსებს ჩემს სულს...
— Mirza Gelovani, თეთრი მიწა
The time is always right to create the life you want.
— Jacquie Gauthier, The Gift of an Elephant: A story about Life, Love and Africa
I am the Richest man on earth because I am the Happiest man on earth. After all, isn’t Happiness the Greatest Wealth in Life?
— RVM
If you think you're unable to be on the cover of Time magazine, make it your business to be there.
— Paul Arden, It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want To Be
Man be merciful, for your Maker is merciful.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
A simple way to be grateful is to close your eyes for a minute and think of those who never got a chance to open them.
— RVM
Gravitate towards your heart’s desire!
— Stefan Emunds, Holistic Self-realization
ONE ACT OF KINDNESS MIGHT BE THAT GAME CHANGER FOR YOUR DESTINY AND GENERATIONS.
— WISDOM KWASHIE MENSAH (WKM)
What doesn't kill me provides writing material.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
Only the fear of God, can deliver us from evil.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
So, fatality will play me these terrible tricks. The elements themselves conspire to overwhelm me with mortification. Air, fire, and water combine their united efforts to oppose my passage. Well, they shall see what the earnest will of a determined man can do. I will not yield, I will not retreat even one inch; and we shall see who shall triumph in this great contest - man or nature.
— Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth
…this story offers far more than a simple moral of how the meek can trump the mighty.
— Jerry Pinkney
Its not enough to just own a camera. Everyone owns a camera. To be a photographer you must understand, appreciate and harness the power you hold!
— Mark Denman
What do you care if people talk? Those who talk cannot harm you. Why should you be worried? You should only think about those things that please you. You have only one life in this world: soon you'll reach your eternal rest.
— Christine de Pizan, The Selected Writings
Don’t be afraid of your struggles, they are making you dangerously strong and wise. They are preparing you for your superpowers. Let them happen, otherwise you’ll stay in the same damn place you’ve always been, and until you know there is so much more awesomeness in the world you’ll be content in your tiny cocoon, spinning the same circles day in and day out. Your struggles are transforming you.
— Melody Lee
Being a real man is less about appearing strong and more about having the courage to influence a change in everyone around you.
— Robert Vanleeuwen
Don’t just GO through life, GROW through it. For Life comes to you only once . . . never to return! Climb the Ladder of Life, step by step.
— RVM
No circumstance is uncommon to a man.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Life lessons.... You have faced me head on and still I was reluctant to learn, I looked sideways anyway but in your eyes. I refused to see , ignored the lessons .. all too much. Guess what? Now I have no choice but to open my eyes. My very survival depends on it. I have to learn to depend on me. Finally it has clicked . I am my own knight in shining armour. ' Standing up for me!
— Virginia Toole
Have your own convictions. Believe in the laws of your conscience because if you believe in everything, you become nothing.
— RVM
Simplicity is the friend of execution
— Sesan Kareem
Having a camera is not enough. You must understand, appreciate, and harness the power you hold!
— Mark Denman
When your heart jumps every time your camera locks focus...You've become a photographer.
— Mark Denman
A man needs only his daily bread.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Remember no more your misery, listen to good music.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Beauty is charm.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Whoever turns to the Lord, shall walk in the light.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Человек, который никуда не спешит, никуда не попадает.
— Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
Inspiration in the wee hours of the morning is the golden ticket
— Virginia Toole
While trying hard not to apportion blamesI end up apportioning all the blame on myselfI take several portions of the blamewhich makes my heart to be filled with guilt
— Amby C. Ezem
It's not that I couldn't love you moreI loved you in a way I thought you deserved You thought you deserved moreI just didn't see It
— Amby C. Ezem
Enjoy the Bliss of just Being… Without being dependent on anything!
— RVM
Every good gift comes from God.
— Lailah Gifty, Akita
Our competence comes from God's grace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If you allow yourself to be bogged down and lose your enthusiasm, you are dead in the water. But if you remain optimistic, cheerful and committed to your goal, there’s nothing that can stop you.
— Cathy Huges
Awaken your heart!
— Stefan Emunds, Holistic Self-realization
A nurse later told me that I was her ‘”One.” Meaning, I was her one story of hope to tell others who are facing similar odds against them.
— Matthew J. Murphy, REMEDY: HOW I CURED THE INCURABLE
Was ist schon das Licht der kleinen Schreibtischlampe gegen das Licht der Sonne? Die Sonne bescheint die ganze Welt. Und Lucias Schreibtischlampe schafft es nicht mal, ein Zimmer zu erhellen. Immer wieder gibt es dunkle Ecken, die der Mensch allein nicht durchschauen kann.
— Fabian W. Williges, Lucias Aufbrüche
If you can't write a book, write a chapter. If you can't do that, write a page, a sentence or a word. For it is from a single word that books are made.
— Tarun Betala
What are you seeking? Spiritual Health or Monetary Wealth? While the latter will dissolve, the former will make you evolve!
— RVM
They surrounded him here, but beyond, flames licked the cabins, the incendiary glow striking a similar spark inside him from the injustice they’d faced tonight.
— Katherine McIntyre, Forged Alliances
People change only under two circumstances, one is called Inspiration and the other Desperation!!!! Unfortunately, both give results!
— Harrish Sairaman
Once you say that you are perfect, it actually means you are dead, because you are killing the opportunity to improve and grow.
— RVM
I have no house but glad to have a home.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I am the sea and nobody owns me.
— Pippi Longstocking
Stay inspired.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Be yourself, be yourself.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I know it's become fashionable to depict the police as sadistic Cossacks riding down innocent citizens, but I've become well enough acquainted with law-enforcement agencies across the country to know that's just not the case. Of course, a certain small percentage of policemen are irresponsible...but that doesn't justify the current unjust barrage of propaganda against a tribe of men who are hard-working, underpaid and daily risking their lives to protect us. I'm sure there are isolated instances of police brutality, but the rising crime rate and urban violence constitute a far, far more pressing problem.
— Truman Capote
Writing in a new style never hurt anybody. Upside: if it does, you can write about it!
— Jennifer Worrell
Stretch your writing muscles. Maybe the sophisticated technique nagging at you is something you’re just naturally good at. How else will you know?
— Jennifer Worrell
In every possibility of a mind May you travel, yet not blind. As a head filled with imagination, Goes a heart full of gold creation, It's never late to have a dream. Nor is it so far away as it seems, And, like a rearview mirror reveals, Thus a fantasy soon becomes real. It may be closer than it appears. Or at least it will show up clear. Never give up a dream for fear!
— Ana Claudia Antunes, ACross Tic
Esta dependencia del tutelaje es auto-impuesta, pues su causa no reside en falta de razón, sino que en falta de resolución y coraje para usarla sin la dirección de otro. No se atreven a pensar por sí mismos.
— Warren Orbaugh, El retorno del superhombre
The night before, Belle had stayed up past her bedtime, making a few changes to her doll with her father's tools. She couldn't help it. Inspiration had struck. Her father always told her that when inspiration strikes, you must grab it.
— Walt Disney Company, Belle's Discovery
Not everything is about you.In fact, most things aren’t.What a relief, right?
— Scott Stabilele
Today is a day, like every other day, brimming with possibility. A day to treat people with kindness and respect. A day to move closer to fulfilling your dreams. A day to forgive yourself for absolutely everything. A day to smile with gratitude. Today is a day, like every other day, to create the kind of life you want to live, the kind that makes you feel good and right, the kind of life you were born to realize. Today.
— Scott Stabile
Of course change is hard. It has to be. It carries with it - every single time - the potential to elevate, even revolutionize your life in ways you can never truly realize until you're already transformed, safely on the other side of your resistance and fear. Change is hard, but rarely as difficult as not doing anything.Now is the time - really, right now - to start making those changes you know you need to make in your life. Dive into change, into the sea of possibility it creates, and trust that all the hard work will bring you some deeply wonderful things - like a greater sense of calm and happiness, and a truer taste of freedom.If you can’t dive in, that’s okay. Tip toe, baby step, crawl if you have to. Just keep moving forward, no matter what, into what is already becoming your new and beautiful reality.
— Scott Stabile
I've wasted a lot of time in my life waiting for good things to happen, rather than acting to make them happen.What I've learned?Waiting suffocates power. Acting ignites it.Waiting feeds anxiety. Acting relaxes it. Waiting fuels boredom. Acting repels it. Waiting galvanizes fear. Acting subdues it. Your life will not change any sooner while you wait around for something new. But it just may transform at warp speed once you take action to change it. I'm tired of wasting time, of waiting time. How about you?Act, don't wait.
— Scott Stabile
A moment spent in Sorrow or a moment spent in Pain is a waste of a Great Treasure that you will never get again.
— RVM
The more excuses you make, the less progress you make!
— Nicky Verd
you are a lover of the wordsa soul mate to the storyeverything becomes a part of youfrom my fingertips to your eyesfrom my heart to yours
— Amanda Linsmeier, Like Waves
I feel a warmth within, as if sunshine has flooded my soul.
— Amanda Linsmeier, Ditch Flowers
There's a table with some catalogues and a guest book in the corner; there are artworks. Today, I need so badly to be inspired by them, even though I hate that word: inspiration. It crops up in too many advertisements, politcians' speeches, Disney films, its meaning obliterated. I refuse to be 'inspired' in the same insipid way that ad executives and politicians and Hollywood producers suggest I should be. What I need from these works is to be reminded of why I used to care about art—so much that I'd try and make it for myself.
— Sara Baume, A Line Made by Walking
Tanacity is the dance within the art of opportunity
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Your heart doesn’t like shady strategies.
— Stefan Emunds, Holistic Self-realization
Don’t just be who you are and what you are. Move, evolve, change, grow and become better each day.
— RVM
The champion wins first, then walks into the arena. Everybody else walks into the arena and then tries to figure out what to do.
— Jim Fannin
Wonder is the starter kit for innovation
— Tara Lemméy
If we desire our souls to be sanctify, we shall hunger for the Truth.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If we first purify our souls, we desire to dwell in clean surroundings.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
When you are in action it is very difficult to get a bird’s eye view of your own performance! Find some time to introspect.
— Harrish Sairaman
If you don’t act out of ‘Inspiration’, ‘Desperation’ will make you act!
— Harrish Sairaman
Serve in the grace of strength within thy soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Life is a sacred service.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The first rule of truly living is to do the things you're most afraid of.
— Rebekah Mikaelson
There is no downside to taking care of yourself.
— Scott Stabile
It's important to work on our personal growth, and part of that work is learning, and accepting the fact that we are absolutely enough, as we are. Some of our most profound changes manifest by simply embracing who we've been all along.
— Scott Stabile
A great giftwe can giveto ourselvesis a willingnessto love everyone,no matter what.This frees us completely from the toxicjustificationswe use to hate.
— Scott Stabile
Share your gifts. Learn from the gifts of others.Stay open to whichever role — teacher and/or student — life is calling on you to play. And bring as much acceptance and love to each performance.When we walk through life as only a teacher, we miss out on learning from the world around us.When we walk through life as only a student, we miss out on sharing our unique vision of the world.
— Scott Stabile
A change of attitude changes everything.A bad attitude never leads to a good life.
— Scott Stabile
Whatever comes your way begets the gift of every circumstance.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The grace of being is gift of baptism by washing in water. And in Spirit of Christ Jesus.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I am learning to accept everything about myself,even the part of me that struggles to accept everything about myself.
— Scott Stabile
my beautiful friend,even on your darkest day i have benefited from the warmth of your light. and i know i’m not the only one. even when you are not consciously giving, you are still giving so much. with your openness, your kindness, your understanding. see yourself through my eyes, for just a moment. feel yourself through my heart.Allow me the honor of reflecting back to you the love you have shown me, time and again, when it was only real love, and real friendship that could have pulled me from the pain. let me take some of your pain now. I am here. I am yours. You are mine, my friend. I am grateful.
— Scott Stabile