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It finally had to.I understood that it wouldn’t be easy, it would be very hard; I’d need to resist the habit I had developed long ago – with conviction. I’d have to be impolite, an inconvenience, and sometimes awkward. But if I could commit, all that discomfort would add up to zap predatory threats like a Taser gun. I’d stun them. They’d bow to me. I’d let my no echo against the mountains.
— Aspen Matis, Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
Confident is spirit of faith
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Your greatest competence are your courage and confident.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Be joyful and expect a great future.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Powerful I am a form of God's design! I will have whatever my mind is set on; I will be whatever my desire is to be, Around me rolls the power of universe.I stand to gaze and praise myself loud, For my greetings waits the entire nature,I have made choices out of my self-loveI have held to thoughts to please my ownI have taken charted plans to make beautiful way Where I live in a closet of peace with spiritual gainI have the power to change darkness into dazzling light, I have the courage to struggle for my deserving right.With my choices I ride ahead to capture vision and goalsBut it seems life still loves the green grasses and games,Then I fear as I deceive myself and cheat my knowing Soul,For greed of wants, desires I manipulate my Divine own. But the joke is still I achieve what I want in a better way,No one knows how happy I am to be in this humble way,Past is gone and it better leaves me alone for now,My true romance is only with my dear lovely future.I have strength of ocean within me and power of God, Who dares to break me down will never be able to at all,I am the most beautiful design created by my God,His infinite power and tender heart inherited by me...the powerful one- Harshada Pathare
— Harshada Pathare
I am no longer tied to the cliffsThreats don’t hold any groundI have decided to fly highOn the winds of cool complacence
— Balroop Singh
Life is a journey, a ride of endless means and emotions.
— Mary  V. Pate, Now I Have the Best Job in the World: How God Helped Me Through Sabotage in the Workplace
Everything that looks like a loss may be an extraordinary, successful life waiting to explode.
— Mary  V. Pate, Now I Have the Best Job in the World: How God Helped Me Through Sabotage in the Workplace
Beauty is not about being Formal or Stylish, it's rather about how you think of yourself in front of mirror!
— Shubham Raj
The greatest obstacles I ever had to overcome had been my own insecurities.
— Charles Shoenfeld
...there was no guilt in his face, no doubt, nothing but the calm of an inviolate self-confidence.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
I wasn’t born to fetch, or sit, or accept a beating. I’m here to be me, to write, and know my purpose.
— Fennel Hudson, A Writer's Year - Fennel's Journal - No. 3
It’s ironic that those who lack self-confidence are often the ones who find it hardest to say no.
— Fennel Hudson, A Writer's Year - Fennel's Journal - No. 3
We are all Clapping Monkeys, but while some of us smile, others look around to see if anyone has noticed.
— Fennel Hudson, A Writer's Year - Fennel's Journal - No. 3
For the first time ever, I was alone in a different country. I was nervous about how I was going to cope in this big bustling city and so I employed a technique which still serves me well today. I imagined myself as someone who relished new exciting opportunities, who was utterly unafraid and perpetually optimistic. It was a kind of reinvention. Everyone I met was new. These people didn't know me, there was no shared history, so I could be anything or anyone I wanted to be. My theory was that if I behaved like a confident, cheerful person, eventually I would buy it myself, and become that. I always had traces of strength somewhere inside me, it wasn't fake. It was just a way of summoning my courage to the fore and not letting any creeping self-doubt hinder my adventures. This method worked then, and it works now.
— Dawn French, Dear Fatty
Self-confidence is built from the inside out and has little or nothing to do with outside circumstances.
— Gudjon Bergmann, Create a Safe Space: An Inspirational Guidebook for Yoga Teachers Who Want to Further Serve Their Students
Self-confidence is not a fixed way of being. People are not born with certain levels of self-confidence, it can be acquired, and it can be lost.
— Gudjon Bergmann, Empowerment Basics
Self-confidence can be defined in two sentences. (1) I trust myself to face life’s challenges and (2) I trust myself to follow my dreams and goals.
— Gudjon Bergmann, Empowerment Basics
If you want to increase your self-confidence as a yoga teacher very fast – go out there, face your fears, and teach as much as you possibly can!
— Gudjon Bergmann, Create a Safe Space: An Inspirational Guidebook for Yoga Teachers Who Want to Further Serve Their Students
Be decisive and handle objections as they come, don't relay on others much and don't look to others to determine if you're acting right or wrong. Do what feels right for you.
— Auliq Ice
A person with less knowledge and more self-confidence (which is primarily a way of thinking and acting) will often run circles around a person with more knowledge and less self-confidence; which means that self-confidence has the upper hand to knowledge when it comes to acting in the world. It has been interesting to see many of my star academic students struggle with teaching in the real world, while others who were less qualified in the academic field but had more self-confidence have gone out and positively affected many more people through their teaching.
— Gudjon Bergmann, Create a Safe Space: An Inspirational Guidebook for Yoga Teachers Who want to Further Serve their Students
Being a slave to a fellow human being, many times, starts with giving his opinion more weight than you should.
— Tanya R. Taylor
Why should we change that which makes us unique?
— Fennel Hudson, A Writer's Year - Fennel's Journal - No. 3
The thing that matters most is what matters to you, not anybody else.
— Fennel Hudson, A Writer's Year - Fennel's Journal - No. 3
If, like me, you suffer from lack of self-confidence you’ll know that the term is made up of two conflicting words, and that confidence isn’t easily found in the self.
— Fennel Hudson, A Writer's Year - Fennel's Journal - No. 3
Ignore what other people think. Most people aren't even paying attention to you.
— Amy Poehler
Don't get inspired by others, inspire yourself.
— Alperen Gülveren
Walk with purpose. Approach life with purpose, enter a room with purpose, and it’s just a matter of time before people are coming over and talking to you.
— Sharon Law Tucker, How to Be a BadAss - A Survival Guide for Women
If you saw the size of the BLESSING YOU ARE BECOMING, you would understand the magnitude of the battle you are fighting!
— Michele Jennae
And I'm not sure if it's G-d, or fate, or just air masses colliding over water, but I will say this: It feels, finally, like flying.
— Una LaMarche, Like No Other
Talent does not search for the person, in fact the person needs to search for the talent inside him and take it out to show the world.
— Unarine Ramaru
Never fails. Every new book I write seems impossible, writes like I'm typing from dictation, edits like I didn't write it, and finishes like I couldn't possibly have written it.
— Kris Rafferty
Maturity is the ability to make a decision and stand by it.
— Auliq Ice
Jules was a proud little toy. She decided that she was going to work very hard to be the best wolf she could be.
— Julie B.  Campbell, The Elephant Wolf
be at your best when things are at their worst.
— Elhachemi Sabi
Every time you survive a horrible storm you start thinking that you are immortal and this is the most negative and the most dangerous part of self-confidence!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
There are authors who write to communicate, there are authors who write to impress themselves.
— Mark S. Hertzog
If you want to say no, be firm and direct.
— Auliq Ice
The best don’t stick around when you treat them poorly, only the desperate do.
— Shannon L. Alder
You aren't ugly, my dear. Do not listen to anyone who would say so, even yourself.
— Amber Jaeger, The Cold King
Yes, she'd made a mistake... but she wasn't going to be bullied. You couldn't let boys go around raining on your lava and ogling other people's watercolors.
— Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith
It's better to dance like a fool, than to stand around like an idiot.
— Oliver Gaspirtz
So when it comes to Elvis and Joe, I have to trust my instincts, because they’ve gotten me here. And I have to write what I believe in, what I find moving.
— Robert Crais
Defining yourself in terms of how you rank is always dangerous and ultimately immature. It doesn't matter whether the rank has to do with your grades, your weight or where you finished in the 800 meter race. Becoming a mature adult means, among other things, that you define yourself relative to your own potential, not relative somebody else's standard.
— Leonard Sax, Girls on the Edge: The Four Factors Driving the New Crisis for Girls-Sexual Identity, the Cyberbubble, Obsessions, Environmental Toxins
Putting in effort is like riding a bicycle on train tracks, you will get to where you want to go but you will feel every bump along the way.
— Davis Levy
That which caused the many failures I had in learning the bicycle had caused me failures in life; namely, a certain fearful looking for of judgment; a too vivid realization of the uncertainty of everything about me; an underlying doubt--at once, however (and this is all that saved me), matched and overcome by the determination not to give in to it.
— Frances E. Willard, How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle: Reflections of an Influential 19th Century Woman
You’re the only you you get in this life! Show a little appreciation!
— Dennis Vickers, Mikawadizi Storms
We judge others according to our image ofperfection as well, and naturally they fall short of our expectations.
— Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Everyone keeps looking on their defects. It's not like everyone's perfect, we all are are ugly and at the same time beautiful. It's just how we should carry and believe in ourselves. Nasa attitude yan, wala sa hitsura
— HaveYouSeenThisGirL
Her feelings of fear and helplessness had reached such a pitch that they were suddenly transformed into their opposites. Having overcome them, she felt corageous and self-confident enough to tackle any power on earth; more precisely, she had ceased to worry about herself.
— Michael Ende, Momo
Why yes, I can,' said Midas Mulligan, when he was asked whether he could name a person more evil than the man with a heart closed to pity. 'The man who uses another's pity for him as a weapon.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Measure yourself by your best moments, not by your worst. We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression.
— Robert Johnson
Today is the day you have to start believing in yourself. No one can do it for you anymore.
— Lauren Graham "Someday Someday Maybe"
Pretend to give consent to the advice of others, but if you find it suitable,take it. But if out of the right view, despise and cast it away
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Selling yourself short shortchanges others who could reap the benefits of what you have to offer; it also shortchanges you who could, in turn, reap the benefits of what others want to offer you.
— Pen
If there’s one thing you learn from me, after hearing about just under one year of my life can it be that you should do whatever makes you happy. People can bring you down, people can bully you, can cheat on you but if you are doing whatever makes you happy they’ll never break you. Like you saw Jacob cried but he went back fighting, no way was he going to drop out that course, it was what he wanted to do in his life and Noah was as happy as always when he told us about Stephen, because he knew although that hurt him he was about to go onto bigger and better things. Oh and never let people hold you back, ever. Mason wouldn’t be going to university this September if he had and he wouldn’t be doing what makes him happy (see full circle). And most of all, always have the courage to stand up and say I am what I am, never apologize for who you are or who you love and always take a chance because you never know what could happen and although some people call it cliché, it’s okay to fall in love with your best friend because sometimes having your best friend as your lover is the best thing you could ask for. I promise. It’s also perfectly acceptable to dress up as a women on a weekly basis and singing popular songs as long as it makes you happy doing so.
— R.J. Seeley, Released
A girl yesterday during my program asked me a question; Sir, Why is this world an Unsafe place? And i had confusion not clarity... No answers
— Dinesh Kumar
How to Build Self Confidence in 5 Easy Steps
— Kimberly Reid
So I'll do that, and I'll do my best and if my best isn't good enough, at least I will have done everything I could, everything that is in me. I don't have to try to be someone else, someone I could never be.
— Garth Nix, Abhorsen
I was hoping that perhaps I could roll with you...""You cannot roll with me," said the Big O, "but perhaps you can roll by yourself.
— Shel Silverstein, The Missing Piece Meets the Big O
And it occurred to me that the reason she makes it work, probably, is because she's so comfortable with herself. And you know, that's not such a bad notion, in the whole life-lesson business. Being comfortable with yourself. Because if you're not okay with who you are, why should anyone else be?
— Catherine Gilbert Murdock, Front and Center
Life has enough torturers as it is, without you going around moonlighting as a Grand Inquisitor against yourself.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
Gracious Providence, to whom I owe all my powers, why didst thou not withhold some of those blessings I possess, and substitute in their place a feeling of self-confidence and contentment?
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther
Why had I wasted all my time pretending to be someone I wasn't? I was tired, so very, very tired of standing on my own brakes. I felt...right. I felt free.
— Ilona Andrews, Gunmetal Magic
Great change doesn't come with official endorsement.
— Patti Digh, Life Is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally
Bite them before they Bite you.
— Annomynous
The most important point to remember in developing self-confidence is to take responsibility for who we are. This empowers us. We can change anything, do anything, and be anything when we assume full responsibility for ourselves.
— Rachael Bermingham
Whoever is trying to bring you down is already beneath you.
— Habeeb Akande
Self-assurance reassures others.
— Garry Willis
Being comfortable with who you are is the ultimate threat!----You Killed Wesley Payne
— Sean Beaudoin, You Killed Wesley Payne
Consciousness expresses itself through creation. This world we live in is the dance of the creator. Dancers come and go in the twinkling of an eye but the dance lives on. On many an occasion when I am dancing, I have felt touched by something sacred.In those moments, I felt my spirit soar and become one with everything that exists. I become the stars and the moon. I become the lover and the beloved. I become thevictor and the vanquished. I become the master and the slave. I become the singer and the song. I become the knower and the known. I keep on dancing then it is the eternal dance or creation. The creator and creation merge into one wholeness of joy. I keep on dancing...and dancing...and dancing. Until there is only...the dance.
— Michael  Jackson
Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life. LSD shows you that there’s﻿ another side to the coin, and you can’t remember it when it wears off, but you know it. It reinforced my sense of what was important—creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.
— Steve Jobs
We make our own monsters, then fear them for what they show us about ourselves.
— Mike Carey, The Unwritten, Vol. 1: Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity
Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to the animals, for they are without sin, while you, with all your greatness, you defile the earth wherever you appear and leave an ignoble trail behind you -- and that is true, alas, for almost every one of us!
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all, even the most barbarian, nations into civilization. The cheap prices of its commodities are the heavy artillery with which it batters down all Chinese walls, with which it forces the barbarians' intensely obstinate hatred of foreigners to capitulate. It compels all nations, on pain of extinction, to adopt the bourgeois mode of production; it compels them to introduce what it calls civilization into their midst, i.e., to become bourgeois themselves. In one word, it creates a world after its own image.
— Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
Do you know I don't know how one can walk by a tree and not be happy at the sight of it? How can one talk to a man and not be happy in loving him! Oh, it's only that I'm not able to express it...And what beautiful things there are at every step, that even the most hopeless man must feel to be beautiful! Look at a child! Look at God's sunrise! Look at the grass, how it grows! Look at the eyes that gaze at you and love you!...
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot
Coyote, who is the creator of all of us, was sitting on his cloud the day after he created Indians. Now, he liked the Indians, liked what they were doing. This is good, he kept saying to himself. But he was bored. He thought and thought about what he should make next in the world. But he couldn't think of anything so he decided to clip his toenails. ... He looked around and around his cloud for somewhere to throw away his clippings. But he couldn't find anywhere and he got mad. He started jumping up and down because he was so mad. Then he accidentally dropped his toenail clippings over the side of the cloud and they fell to the earth. They clippings burrowed into teh ground like seeds and grew up to be white man. Coyote, he looked down at his newest creation and said, "Oh, shit.
— Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
— Samuel Beckett, Proust
If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of creation it would appear that God has an inordinate fondness for stars and beetles.
— J.B.S. Haldane
Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
It is in our nature to destroy what we create. (Dr. Paul Kramer)
— Alex Scarrow, TimeRiders
...do you think God made the world to amuse himself because he was bored? Because if so he would have to be mean.
— Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That is, when we are in the presence of God, we are humbled and become most aware of ourselves as creatures. This is the opposite of Satan's original temptation, "You shall be as gods.
— R.C. Sproul, The Holiness of God
The monster I kill every day is the monster of realism. The monster who attacks me every day is destruction. Out of the duel comes the transformation. I turn destruction into creation over and over again.
— Anaïs Nin, Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin
First there wasn't, then there was. Before God no one was.
— Anita Amirrezvani, The Blood of Flowers
In the loss of skill, we lose stewardship; in losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of Creation. It is possible - as our experience in this good land shows - to exile ourselves from Creation, and to ally ourselves with the principle of destruction - which is, ultimately, the principle of nonentity. It is to be willing in general for being to not-be. And once we have allied ourselves with that principle, we are foolish to think that we can control the results. (pg. 303, The Gift of Good Land)
— Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
The paradox of innovation is that it is accepted as an innovation when it has become imitation.
— Piero Scaruffi
If creation was given no limit, ultimately everything would cease to exist.
— Patricia Briggs, Raven's Strike
Cancer... the process of creation gone wild, I thought.
— Philip K. Dick, Radio Free Albemuth
Creation and destruction are one, to the eyes who can see beauty.And the greatest praise to India is this: not only are her people beautiful; not only are her daily life and cult beautiful; but, in the midst of the utilitarian, humanitarian, dogmatic world of the present day, she keeps on proclaiming the outstanding value of Beauty for the sake of Beauty, through her very conception of Godhead, of religion and of life.
— Savitri Devi
God doesn't NEED raw material. He MAKES material.
— Matt      Chandler, The Explicit Gospel
A beam from the everlasting sun of God.Rude and unresponsive are the stones;Yet in them divine things lie concealed;I hear their imprisoned chant:–“We are fragments of the universe,Chips of the rock whereon God laid the foundation of the world:
— Helen Keller, The Song of the Stone Wall
What is a Poet? He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness, who has a greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind; a man pleased with his own passions and volitions, and who rejoices more than other men in the spirit of life that is in him; delighting to contemplate similar volitions and passions as manifested in the goings-on of the universe, and habitually impelled to create them where he does not find them.
— William Wordsworth
I am an act of kneading, of uniting and joining that not only has produced both a creature of darkness and a creature of light, but also a creature that questions the definitions of light and dark and gives them new meanings.
— Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Interviews/Entrevistas
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?
— Anatole France
There is no creation without tradition
—  the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form
Because God took one look at Adam and said, 'Wow. This guy's going to need all the help he can get.' And here we are.
— Nancy Mehl, Simple Secrets
Amazed, Fat said, "She's decomposing and yet she's still giving birth?""Only to monsters," Dr. Stone said.
— Philip K. Dick, VALIS
God likes to make people. Great people out of common people, strong people out of week people, famous people out of the unknown people, good people are bad people. God likes to make people. That's an obsession with God, one from which He will never change.
— Don Baker, The God of Second Chances: The Remaking of Moses
A goose flies by a chart the Royal Geographic Society could not improve.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
I always fear that creation will expire before teatime.
— Sydney Smith, The Sayings of Sydney Smith
Pictures put you in front of a reality that most of the times you don't want to see, don't want to know about, don't want to get involved.
— Oliviero Toscani
As truly as God by His power oncecreated, so truly by that same power must God every moment maintain.
— Andrew Murray, Humility
You see, for me a painting is a dramatic action in the course of which the reality finds itself split apart. For me, that dramatic action takes precedence over all other considerations. The pure plastic act is only secondary as far as I'm concerned. What counts is the drama of that plastic art, the moment at which the universe comes out of itself and meets its own destruction.
— Françoise Gilot, Life with Picasso
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
— Marty Rubin
The dialectical or ecological approach asserts that creating the world is involved in our every act. It is impossible for us to operate in our daily lives and not create the world that everyone must live in. What we desire arranges the genetic code in all of our major crops and livestock. We cannot avoid participating in the creation, and it is in agriculture, far and away our largest and most basic artifact, that human culture and the creation totally interpenetrate.
— Wes Jackson, Becoming Native to This Place
For the believer in divine creation, the open question of the Mystery of Being is like an open wound. It stings and gapes, and the believer cannot rest till it be healed up, closed up, smeared with the soothing balm of an answer, even if his doctrine be a sophisticated one like Aquinas's or that of the latest Liberal Protestant theologian.
— Robert M. Price
I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals; I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.
— Roland Barthes, Mythologies
Community, then, is an indispensable term in any discussion of the connection between people and land. A healthy community is a form that includes all the local things that are connected by the larger, ultimately mysterious form of the Creation. In speaking of community, then, we are speaking of a complex connection not only among human beings or between humans and their homeland but also between human economy and nature, between forest or prairie and field or orchard, and between troublesome creatures and pleasant ones. All neighbors are included. (pg. 202-203, Conservation and Local Economy)
— Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
He used both hands when he made the bear. Imagine a bear proceeding from the hands of God.
— N. Scott Momaday, Ancient Child
How blest was the created stateOf man and woman, ere they fell,Compared to our unhappy fate:We need not fear another hell.
— John Wilmot, The Complete Poems
God didn't create universe in six days of human measure.God's still working, then hasn't yet reached the seventh day.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
The gods wanted to create creatures who would worship them. First they made the animals, but they couldn’t talk. Then the gods created people out of mud, but when it rained, they fell apart. Then the gods created people out of wood, but they had no feelings, so the gods washed them away in a big flood. Finally, the gods created people out of corn, and they turned out just right.
— Sydney Salter, Jungle Crossing
Was there someone absent from the table of creation?
— Sorin Cerin, Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom
I popped out of a bamboo, fallen from the sky.Leave no leaf ripped, don't you ruin the nature.It makes me bitter, remembering inhuman past.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
I thought about how many elements it took to create the simplest of things - a pink sky an unusually perfect day, a happy family, a deep friendship, a moment of pure delight. I wondered, too, what it took to undo these things. It seemed to me that undoing something was far easier than creating it.
— Aditi Khorana, The Library of Fates
Ryan was a nose away from the tallest cake on display, a six-foot-high chocolate masterpiece Jesse and I had created for this year's fairs. Detailed water nymph's interspersed with insects and toadstools, all sculpted by hand in rich dark chocolate.
— Anouska Knight, Since You've Been Gone
Human glory is not just found in what people were originally created to be – the image of dynamic God, spiritually functioning like him in the physical world. This glory is displayed even more powerfully in what they are now redeemed to be – the image of his Son, Jesus Christ.
— Jeremy Pierre, The Dynamic Heart in Daily Life: Connecting Christ to Human Experience
The one who re-creates from that which has died is always a double-sided archetype. The Creation Mother is always also the Death Mother and vice versa. Because of this dual nature, or double-tasking, the great work before us is to learn to understand what around and about us and what within us must live, and what must die.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
Once you've caught a glimpse of the cosmos through the back doors of your church, it doesn't seem like such a big deal to suggest to a sweet young couple that they quit sleeping with other people.
— Richard Lischer, Open Secrets: A Memoir of Faith and Discovery
Creation has become so broad, there’s no emptiness. Everything swarms and seethes. The void has destroyed itself; creation is its wound, we are its drops of blood, the world is the grave in which it rots.
— Georg Büchner, Dantons Tod
Knight, of course, felt that anyone's willing assistance tainted the whole thing. Either you are hidden or you're not, no middle ground. He wished to be unconditionally alone, exiled to an island of his own creation, an uncontacted tribe of one.
— Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
Humans do not create, we pro-create from that which The Creator has already created.
— Atom Tate
I asked the earth and it answered, “I am not He”; and all things that are in the earth made the same confession. I asked the sea and the deeps and the creeping things, and they answered, “We are not your God, seek higher.” I asked the winds that blow, and the whole air with all that is in it answered, “Anaximenes was wrong; I am not God.” I asked the heavens, the sun, the moon, the stars, and they answered, “Neither are we God whom you seek.” And I said to all the things that throng about the gateways of the senses: “Tell me of my God, since you are not He. Tell me something of Him.” And they cried out in a great voice: “He made us.” My question was my gazing upon them, and their answer was their beauty.Man is a silent, incarnate word of God. The moon, the stars, the sun, the sea, the firmament are the visible proof of the existence and omnipotence of God, who created them out of sheer love. These creatures are the powerful, mysterious voice of God.
— Robert Cardinal Sarah
This is the purpose of life, is it not? To create life is the greatest act a living creature can commit.
— Michael A. Stackpole, I, Jedi
People gravitate toward products that are bold, but instantly comprehensible: Most Advanced Yet Acceptable--MAYA.
— Derek Thompson, Hit Makers: Why Things Become Popular
Most consumers are simultaneously neophilic, curious to discover new things, and deeply neophobic, afraid of anything that is too new. The best hit makers are gifted at creating moments of meaning by marrying new and old, anxiety and understanding. They are architects of familiar surprises.
— Derek Thompson, Hit Makers: How Things Become Popular
Thus there is an ancient Christian tradition, from Augustine to John Paul II, which has believed and argued that sexual difference is significant. With varying degrees of explicitness, the greatest theologians in the Christian West have been relatively cohesive on the point that sexual difference, which enables biological procreation and which humans share with animals, has more than physical and animal significance.	To synthesize, based on the material we have examined in this book, I propose the following theological significance for sexual difference: The same God whom we know in Christ has, in his goodness, created us as male and female. To be male or female, then, is to be blessed, for it is to be something that is good. To be this sexually differentiated creature is to be something that will be redeemed, and redeemed as it was made and not as some other creature; in other words, sexual difference is not something human beings should attempt to ignore or deplore. Sexual difference is something humans should embrace and welcome, for to do that is to honor creation and anticipate redemption. Such a way of life, to which Christ calls all human beings, means to love the neighbor and enable the neighbor to be what he or she is meant to be in the sexual sphere.
— Christopher C. Roberts, Creation and Covenant: The Significance of Sexual Difference in the Moral Theology of Marriage
Our life contains a thousand springs,And dies if one be gone.Strange that a harp of thousand stringsShould keep in tune so long.
— William Billings
This might be the most important question for every creator and maker in the world: how do you make something new if most people just like what they know? Is it possible to surprise with familiarity?
— Derek Thompson, Hit Makers: Why Things Become Popular
If the creation is separated from the creator, the creation will die
— Sunday Adelaja
This sell something familiar, make it surprising. To sell something surprising, make it familiar.
— Derek Thompson, Hit Makers: Why Things Become Popular
The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.
— John Steinbeck
She had turned thought and feeling into life, into reality, into creation. They speak of the _creations_ of the human intellect, of the human imagination! there is nothing man can do comes half so near the making of the Maker as the ordering of his way--except one thing: the highest creation of which man is capable, is to will the will of the Father. That _has_ in it an element of the purely creative, and then is man likest God. But simply to do what we ought, is an altogether higher, diviner, more potent, more creative thing, than to write the grandest poem, paint the most beautiful picture, carve the mightiest statue, build the most worshiping temple, dream out the most enchanting commotion of melody and harmony.
— George MacDonald, Mary Marston
Your creation was the god's way of showing humans that, the artist in him is still alive.
— Akshay Vasu
This is what itmeans to create: not to make something out of nothing, but to make order out of chaos. A creative scientist or historian does not makeup facts but orders facts; he sees connections between them rather than seeing them as random data. A creative writer does notmake up new words but arranges familiar words in patterns which say something fresh to us.
— Harold S. Kushner, When Bad Things Happen to Good People
Time is inexplicable because it moves – clicks away – at steady increments, while increasing the past and bringing the future into the present. Time has a necessary affinity with both heaven and the earthly reality. ‘Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it is the soul of the world.’ Plato said that time and heaven must be coexistent. Without time nothing can be created or generated in the universe, nor is anything intelligible without eternity. Time is no accident or affection, but the cause, power, and principle of the symmetry and order that confines all created beings, by which the animated nature of the universe moves.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
You are created with a purpose
— Sunday Adelaja
The heavens and the earth are around us that it may be possible for us to speak of the unseen by the seen, for the outermost husk of creation has correspondence with the deepest things of the Creator.  He is not a God that hides himself, but a God who made all that he might reveal himself.
— George MacDonald, Unspoken Sermons: Series I, II, III
To look out at this kind of creation out here and not believe in God is to me impossible.
— John Glenn
There are 2 types of artist:those who create for others in mindthose who create for themselveseither way, none are truly independent.
— Natasha Tsakos
We all have the choice as to how we want to create our world.
— Mark Andrew Poe, Time Machine
The most important thing you can do is to get into an iteration cycle where you can measure the impact of your work, have a hypothesis about how making changes will affect those variables, and ship changes regularly. It doesn't even matter that much what the content is - it's the iteration of hypothesis, changes, and measurement that will make you better at a faster rate than anything else we have seen.
— Gabe Newell
A species that survives by creating must not limit who can create. More creators means more creations. Equality brings justice to some and wealth to all.
— Kevin Ashton, How to Fly a Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery
Make an enemy of certainty and befriend doubt. When you can change your mind, you can change anything.
— Kevin Ashton, How to Fly a Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery
Creating is an ordinary act, creation its extraordinary outcome.
— Kevin Ashton, How to Fly a Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery
God wants you to bless Him because it’s the purpose you were originally created for.
— Andrew Wommack, A Better Way to Pray
Only if the being of creation is good, only if trust in being is fundamentally justified, are humans at all redeemable. Only if the Redeemer is also Creator can he really be Redeemer. That is why the question of what we do is decided by the ground of what we are. We can win the future only if we do not lose creation.
— Pope Benedict XVI, 'In the Beginning...' A Catholic Understanding of the Story of Creation and the Fall
To be clear to the scriptures is to be clear to the original plan of creation
— Sunday Adelaja
The need of God’s heart resulted in him creating mankind
— Sunday Adelaja
For every natural law inherent in creation, there is the creator’s precision
— Sunday Adelaja
God has created the world to be run by His principles.
— Sunday Adelaja
We humans must confess, 'I am because he is.' Only God can say, 'I AM WHO I AM'.
— Jen Wilkin, None Like Him: 10 Ways God Is Different from Us
The happiest moment i felt
—  is that moment when i realized my ability to create.
What I'll think is that you are clearly, maddeningly not me. It will remind me, again, that you won't be a clone of me; you can be wonderful, a daily delight, but you won't be someone I could have created by myself.
— Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others
Winning the Origins Lottery Nontheistic models adhere to a central premise that humans arose by strictly natural unguided steps from a bacterial life-form that sprang into being 3.8 billion years ago. Famed evolutionary biologist Francisco Ayala, an advocate for the hypothesis that natural selection and mutations can efficiently generate distinctly different species, nevertheless calculated the probability that humans (or a similarly intelligent species) arose from single-celled organisms as a possibility so small (10-1,000,000) that it might as well be zero (roughly equivalent to the likelihood of winning the California lottery 150,000 consecutive times with the purchase of just one ticket each time).2 He and other evolutionary biologists agree that natural selection and mutations could have yielded any of a virtually infinite number of other outcomes. Astrophysicists Brandon Carter, John Barrow, and Frank Tipler produced an even smaller probability.
— Hugh Ross, More Than a Theory: Revealing a Testable Model for Creation
In the beginning there was nothing, and then god created "me".
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
It is almost banal to say so yet it needs to be stressed continually: all is creation, all is change, all is flux, all is metamorphosis.
— Henry Miller
Creation, like love, is a seductive pursuit filled with uncertainty and fluttering heartbeats. (Report to Greco)
— N. Kazantzakis
You didn’t create yourself, so there is no way you can tell yourself what you were created for! If I handed you an invention you had never seen before, you wouldn’t know it’s purpose, and the invention itself wouldn’t be able to tell you either. Only the creator or the owner’s manual could reveal it’s purpose.
— Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
You don't have to climb ladders to reach God. He dances within all He creates.
— Padma Venkatraman, A Time to Dance
This is what creation is. The might and marvel of forever creating out of opposition.
— Florida Scott-Maxwell, The Measure of My Days
There is no answer for life, creation, or mankind. We make the answer.
— Gabriella Jording
S:uch is Heaven on Earth, in all landA:s the sun brightens to the moon N:ails the Creation in a palm of a hand, D:ancing IT makes the desert bloom.
— Ana Claudia Antunes, ACross Tic
It is as though God said, "You think to create order? Here is the appropriate disorder, since they are one.
— Florida Scott-Maxwell, The Measure of My Days
The existence of matter and energy in the universe did not require the violation of energy conservation at the assumed creation. In fact, the data strongly support the hypothesis that no such miracle occurred. If we regard such a miracle as predicted by the creator hypothesis, then the prediction is not confirmed.
— Victor J. Stenger, God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist
We, the atom and I, have been on friendly terms, until recently. I saw in it the key to the deepest secrets of Nature, and it revealed to me the greatness of creation and the Creator.
— Max Born, My Life and My Views
At the U of U, we were inventing a new language. One of us would contribute a verb, another a noun, then a third person would figure out ways to string the elements together to actually say something.
— Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Nothing is harder yet nothing is more necessary, than to speak of certain things whose existence is neither demonstrable nor probable. The very fact that serious and conscientious men treat them as existing things brings them a step closer to existence and to the possibility of being born.Spoken by Albertus Secundus in "Das Glasperlenspiel
— Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game
When the last female dies, the gateway to the earth closes to man.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Then, only then would she realize that the life that she created will extinguish with nothing to offer but the sorrow that she harvested in our souls and the holes that she dug in our hearts.
— A.P. Sweet, dead, but dreaming
Creation is not restricted to the artist but instead is about how we bring ourselves authentically into the world both through our doing and being.
— Tobin Hart, The Four Virtues: Presence, Heart, Wisdom, Creation
O dieses ist das Tier, das es nicht giebt.Sie wußtens nicht und habens jeden Falls– sein Wandeln, seine Haltung, seinen Hals,bis in des stillen Blickes Licht – geliebt.Zwar war es nicht. Doch weil sie’s liebten, wardein reines Tier. Sie ließen immer Raum.Und in dem Raume, klar und ausgespart,erhob es leicht sein Haupt und brauchte kaumzu seinÈ questo l’animale favoloso, che non esiste. Non veduto mai, ne amaron le movenze, il collo, il passo: fino la luce dello sguardo calmo.Pure “non era”. Ma perchè lo amarono,divenne. Intatto. Gli lasciavan sempre più spazio. E in quello spazio chiaro, etereo:serbato a lui – levò, leggiero, il capo.And here we have the creature that is not.But they did not allow this , and as it happens- his gait and bearing, his arched neck,even the light in his eyes - they loved it all.Yet truly he was not. But because they loved himthe beast was seen. And always they made room.And in that space, empty and unbounded,he raised an elegant head, yet hardly foughtfor his existence. Oh ! C'est elle, la bête qui n'existe pas.Eux, ils n'en savaient rien, et de toutes façons- son allure et son port, son col et même la lumièrecalme de son regard - ils l'ont aimée.Elle, c'est vrai, n'existait point. Mais parce qu'ils l'aimaientbête pure, elle fut. Toujours ils lui laissaient l'espace.Et dans ce clair espace épargné, doucement,Elle leva la tête, ayant à peine besoin d'être.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
A multitude of harlequin lifeforms bobbed and twirled and played in the depths of the Atlantic. Pink cucumbers with thorny backs. Algae. Starfish. Annelids with simple brains and a hundred toes. Sponges—like yellow, swollen hands—sucked in water and pushed out oxygen. Most amusing were the mysterious buggers who had no likeness on the previous earth; tiny beasts with exotic exoskeletons engraved with deep grid-like patterns, snails with horns, and slithering plants that looked like magenta weeping willows.
— Jake Vander-Ark, The Day I Wore Purple
We human beings are created and yet we are more rational than the creator himself who spawned us.
— Philip K. Dick, Philip K. Dick: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
The sun was shining, but Christ had hidden Himself, and all the world was black to you; or it was night, and since the bright and morning star was gone, no other star could yield you so much as a ray of light. What a howling wilderness is this world without our Lord! If once He hideth Himself from us, withered are the flowers of our garden; our pleasant fruits decay; the birds suspend their songs, and a tempest overturns our hopes.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
I made the exhilarating discovery that study, when it is pursued with ardour and discipline, becomes creation.
— W.K. Hancock
Your mind is the paintbrush, the earth is your easel. Create your masterpeice
— L.J Vanier
To exist in this poem [of creation] is a greater gift than any finite creature can imagine. To be so insignificant and yet still be given a speaking part, to be given scenes that are my own, and my own only, scenes where the audience is limited to the Author Himself (scenes that I often flub), to have been here with my frozen nose, to have been crafted with at least as much care as a snowflake (though I'm harder to melt), and to hear and feel and see and taste and smell the heavy poetry of God, that is enough.
— N.D. Wilson, Notes From The Tilt-A-Whirl: Wide-Eyed Wonder in God's Spoken World
Behold, now, how foolish it is, in so great an abundance of the truest opinions which can be extracted from these words, rashly to affirm which of them Moses particularly meant; and with pernicious contentions to offend charity itself, on account of which he hath spoken all the things whose words we endeavour to explain!
— Augustine of Hippo
Space creates shape
—  Shape creates space.
All law must be subjective
—  the soil knows how to take a seed and make a plant from it
Remember that the expressions and vocal patterns you are committing to film will become synecdoches... That means something little that stands in for something big. Your smile will stand in for all human happiness. Your tears will be a model for everyone else's sadness. ...You have a responsibility to the people who will repeat your lines, wink your winks, imitate your laughter without knowing they are imitating anything. This is the secret power that actors hold. It is almost like being a god. We create what it is to be human when we stand fifty feet tall on a silk screen.So you'd better be good at it, for God's sake.
— Catherynne M. Valente, Radiance
The act of creation, the impetus to undertake it, is always some kind of feeble attempt to understand one’s own creation, the nature of creation itself.
— Glenn Haybittle, The Way Back to Florence
And He knew him, imagine, To be known, spoken of, By the creator of everything That rule from above.
— Brian M. Boyce, Genesis Beginning
Art requires that you make something else exist that is a representation of what your feeling is, or your idea.
— Anna Deavere Smith, Letters to a Young Artist
Don't squash creativity, inspire it!
— Shellie Palmer
Creation is not waiting earnestly for the sons of God ,but waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God.The sons of God has been here all ages ,but there has never been a time where the sons of God has been manifested fully after the fall. A lot of us as been born but few of us have been manifested.
— Woally Mandzanga
The commendable efforts of preachers to Europe is that each worker no matter the level, knows he is participating in the process of creation with God hence the dignity.
— Sunday Adelaja