Inspiring quotes  

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”

-         Pablo Picasso

"Imagination is more important than knowledge.  Knowledge is limited.  Imagination encircles the world."

        -    Albert Einstein

"Give so much time to the improvement of yourself, that you have no time to criticize others."

        -    Christian D. Larson

“Remember that in order to recover as an artist, you must be willing to be a bad artist. Give yourself the permission to be a beginner.”

-         Julia Cameron

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.”

-         Henry David Thoreau

“I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.”

-         Duke Ellington

“Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want so that they can be happier.  The way it actually works is the reverse.  You must first be who you really are, then, do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.”

-         Margaret Young

"Our glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

        -    Confucius

"You can never cross the ocean unless you have courage to lose sight of the shore."

        -    Christopher Columbus

"We must be the change we want to see."

        -    Gandhi

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.  Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.  It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.  We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?  Actually, who are you not to be?  Your playing small does not serve the world.  There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.  We are all meant to shine, as children do.  It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

        -    Marianne Williamson

"To live is the rarest thing.  Most people exist, that is all."

        -    Oscar Wilde

“There is a risk you cannot afford to take, [and] there is the risk you cannot afford not to take.”

-         Peter Drucker  

“You need to claim the events of your life to make yourself yours.”

-         Anne-Wilson Schaef 

 “Slow down and enjoy life.  It’s not only the scenery you miss by going too fast―you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.”

-         Eddie Cantor

“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”

-         Pablo Picasso

“We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other peoples’ models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.”

-         Shakti Gawain

“A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”

-         Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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