The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things
Rainer Maria Rilke
We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection
His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Out of every fruition of success, no matter what, comes forth something to make a new effort necessary.
Walt Whitman
The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.
E. Hemingway
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
R.W. Emerson
There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and since there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.
Martha Graham
A lot of the people who read a bestselling novel, for example, do not read much other fiction. By contrast, the audience for an obscure novel is largely composed of people who read a lot. That means the least popular books are judged by people who have the highest standards, while the most popular are judged by people who literally do not know any better. An American who read just one book this year was disproportionately likely to have read ‘The Lost Symbol’, by Dan Brown. He almost certainly liked it.
The Economist
The happiness of a man in his life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Tennyson
No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger
Rainer Maria Rilke
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers
Rainer Maria Rilke
Everything has it's beauty but not everyone sees it
Confucius