The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one’s own most intimate sensitivity.
—Anne Truitt
If you believe that you have something special inside of you, and you feel it’s about time you gave it a shot, honor that calling in some small way—today.
—Elle Luna
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
—Albert Einstein
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
—Mark Twain
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.
—Rumi
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
—Abraham Lincoln
We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are.
—Anaïs Nin
Skate to where the puck is going, not to where it has been.
—Wayne Gretzky
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
—Jimi Hendrix
You miss one hundred percent of the shots you don’t take.
—Wayne Gretzky
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
—Albert Schweitzer
I’d rather be in the mountains thinking of God than in church thinking about the mountains.
—John Muir
We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
—Albert Einstein
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
—Leonardo da Vinci
I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
—Thomas Jefferson
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
—Carl Jung
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
—Rumi
You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you need to make choices. And hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are.
—Fred Rogers
You aren’t just the age you are. You are all the ages you ever have been.
—Kenneth Koch
Creativity is like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
—E. L. Doctorow
Be patient towards all that is unsolved in your heart, and learn to love the questions themselves.
—Rainer Maria Rilke
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
—Richard Buckminster Fuller
Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place.
—Rumi
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
—Anaïs Nin
Do not seek the because—in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
—Anaïs Nin
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
—Anaïs Nin
I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.
—Pablo Neruda
I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
—Rainer Maria Rilke
We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.
—Sojourner Truth
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
—Emile Zola
I’ve been imitated so well I’ve heard people copy my mistakes.
—Jimi Hendrix
Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.
—Rumi
When you come right down to it, the secret to having it all is loving it all.
—Dr. Joyce Brothers
One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.
—Salvador Dali
Keep in touch with your soul by developing your technique. There are no mistakes, so… just work. The more you work the more you’ll figure out if that’s your bliss.
—Fernando Ferreira De Araujo
Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk everything, you risk even more.
—Erica Jong
Love, love, love: That is the soul of genius.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The problem, if you love it, is as beautiful as the sunset.
—Krishnamurti
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
—Henry David Thoreau
Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
—Gil Baile
Chance favors the prepared mind.
—Louis Pasteur
Yes! There will be growth in the spring!
—Chauncey Gardner
We can learn from a tree how to exist in ecstasy.
—Teabag proverb
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
—Rumi
If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
—Vincent van Gogh
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
—Isaac Newton
We are what we repeatedly do.
—Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
—Aristotle
Genius is childhood recalled at will.
—Charles Baudelaire
Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.
—Roger von Oech
Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.
—Roger von Oech
War Is Over (If You Want It).
—John Lennon
Spend some time alone every day.
—Dalai Lama
Art washes from the soul the dust of every day life.
—Pablo Picasso
Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
—Dalai Lama
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
—Dalai Lama
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
—Frank Lloyd Wright
Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
—Dalai Lama
Be gentle with the earth.
—Dalai Lama
There are some virtues to not saying what you think all the time.
—Margaret Atwood
Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
—Dalai Lama
Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.
—Dalai Lama
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
—Albert Einstein
Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.
—Spalding Gray
Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.
—David Byrne
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
—Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
—Robert Frost
The paradoxical truth is that the best strategy for finding your way out of the fog is to enjoy the fog.
—Rob Brezsny