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#1

“Blessed are the weird people:
poets, misfits, writers
mystics, painters, troubadours
for they teach us to see the world through different eyes.”
― Jacob Nordby, Pearls of Wisdom: 30 Inspirational Ideas to live your best life now

tags: art, creative, inspirational, poets, writers, writing-life

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#2

“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? You are a child of God. 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. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. 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, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

tags: akeelah, fear, inspirational

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#3

“She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

tags: words

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#4

“We owe it to each other to tell stories.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: books, stories

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#5

“You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: creativity

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#6

“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”
― Ayn Rand

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#7

“You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: creativity

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#8

“You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.”
― Steve Jobs

tags: advice, apple, business, creativity, ileadership, leadership, mac, macintosh

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#9

“If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.”
― Ken Robinson, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

tags: creativity, failure, original

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#10

“A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.”
― Will Self

tags: criticism, inspirational

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#11

“Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.”
― Bernard Branson

tags: adult, african-american-romance, angels, baby, bible, bible-study, business, childrens, christian-living, christian-romance, college, creativity, dark-fantasy, dating, economics, education, educational, entrepreneurship, ethics, explicit, faith, family, family-relationships, fantasy-romance, friendship, fun, funny, humorous-romance, jesus, leadership, love-story, management, marriage, meditation, motivational, nonfiction, paranormal-romance, parenting, personal-transformation, relationships, religion, romantic-comedy, romantic-suspense, self-esteem, self-help, sex, sexuality, sexy, spiritual-growth, spirituality, students, success, supernatural, teen, women, young-adult, young-adult-fantasy

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#12

“There is a desire within each of us,
in the deep center of ourselves
that we call our heart.
We were born with it,
it is never completely satisfied,
and it never dies.
We are often unaware of it,
but it is always awake.

It is the Human desire for Love.
Every person in this Earth yearns to love,
to be loved, to know love.
Our true identity, our reason for being
is to be found in this desire.

Love is the "why" of life,
why we are functioning at all.
I am convinced
it is the fundamental energy
of the human spirit.
the fuel on which we run,
the wellspring of our vitality.

And grace,
which is the flowing,
creative activity, of love itself,
is what makes all goodness possible.

Love should come first,
it should be the beginning of,
and the reason for everything.”
― Gerald May, Living in Love

tags: human-spirit, love, romance

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#13

“life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one”
― Stella Adler

tags: affirmation, art, creativity

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#14

“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”
― Erich Fromm

tags: creativity

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#15

“You don’t make art out of good intentions.”
― Gustave Flaubert

tags: art, artists, creativity, writers, writing

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#16

“Your job is to collect good ideas. The more good ideas you collect, the more you can choose from to be influenced by.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

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#17

“Basic Principles:

1. Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is energy: pure creative energy.

2. There is an underlying, in-dwelling creative force infusing all of life -- including ourselves.

3. When we open ourselves to our creativity, we open ourselves to the creator's creativity within us and our lives.

4. We are, ourselves, creations. And we, in turn, are meant to continue creativity by being creative ourselves.

5. Creativity is God's gift to us. Using our creativity is our gift back to God.

6. The refusal to be creative is self-will and is counter to our true nature.

7. When we open ourselves to exploring our creativity, we open ourselves to God: good orderly direction.

8. As we open our creative channel to the creator, many gentle but powerful changes are to be expected.

9. It is safe to open ourselves up to greater and greater creativity.

10. Our creative dreams and yearnings come from a divine source. As we move toward our dreams, we move toward our divinity.”
― Julia Cameron

tags: creativity, divine, dreams, flow, god, yearnings

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#18

“So many people think that they are not gifted because they don’t have an obvious talent that people can recognize because it doesn’t fall under the creative arts category—writing, dancing, music, acting, art or singing. Sadly, they let their real talents go undeveloped, while they chase after fame. I am grateful for the people with obscure unremarked talents because they make our lives easier---inventors, organizers, planners, peacemakers, communicators, activists, scientists, and so forth. However, there is one gift that trumps all other talents—being an excellent parent. If you can successfully raise a child in this day in age to have integrity then you have left a legacy that future generations will benefit from.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: acceptance, babies, baby, blessings, careers, children, confidence, creative, dads, fame, family-forever, fathers, focus, gifted, gifts, goals, happiness, humility, inventors, kids, leadership, legacy, life-purpose, life-purpose-101, moms, mothers, organizers, parenting, parenting-101, planners, planning, pregnancy, priorities, rearing, service, stay-at-home-moms, stay-at-home-mothers, staying-positive, stayingpositiveu-com, talents, teaching, time, what-matters

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#19

“The thing is: It takes a lot of energy to be creative. You don’t have that energy if you waste it on other stuff.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

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#20

“Pretend to be something you’re not until you are—fake it until you’re successful, until everybody sees you the way you want them.”
― austin kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

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#21

“To be empowered—to be free, to be unlimited, to be creative, to be genius, to be divine—that is who you are…. Once you feel this way, memorize this feeling; remember this feeling. This is who you really are….”
― Joe Dispenza, Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One

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#22

“Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.”
― Steven Pressfield, The War of Art

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#23

“Enjoy your obscurity while it lasts.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

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#24

“A writer or any artist can’t expect to be embraced by the people. I've done records where it seemed like no one listened to them. You write poetry books that maybe 50 people read. And you just keep doing your work because you have to, because it’s your calling.

But it’s beautiful to be embraced by the people.

Some people have said to me, “Well, don’t you think that kind of success spoils one as an artist? If you’re a punk rocker, you don’t want to have a hit record…”

And I say to them, “Fuck you!”

One does their work for the people. And the more people you can touch, the more wonderful it is. You don’t do your work and say, “I only want the cool people to read it.” You want everyone to be transported, or hopefully inspired by it.

When I was really young, William Burroughs told me, “Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don’t make compromises. Don’t worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned with doing good work. And make the right choices and protect your work. And if you can build a good name, eventually that name will be its own currency.”
― Patti Smith

tags: advice, art, creativity, writing

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#25

“Validation is for parking.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

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#26

“Don't wait until you know who you are to get started. If I'd waited to know who I was or what I was about before I started "being creative," well, I'd be sitting around trying to figure myself out instead of making things. In my experience, it's in the act of making things and doing our work that we figure out who we are. You're ready. Start making stuff.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

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#27

“Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You cannot get there by bus, only by hard work, risking and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you will discover will be wonderful: Yourself.”
― Alan Alda

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#28

“You can measure your worth by your dedication to your path, not by your successes or failures.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

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#29

“creativity keeps the world alive, yet, everyday we are asked to be ashamed of honoring it, wanting to live our lives as artists. i’ve carried the shame of being a ‘creative’ since i came to the planet; have been asked to be something different, more, less my whole life. thank spirit, my wisdom is deeper than my shame, and i listened to who i was. i want to say to all the creatives who have been taught to believe who you are is not enough for this world, taught that a life of art will amount to nothing, know that who we are, and what we do is life. when we create, we are creating the world. remember this, and commit.”
― Nayyirah Waheed

tags: art, artists, poetry

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#30

“A creative life is an amplified life. It’s a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, and a hell of a lot more interesting life. Living in this manner—continually and stubbornly bringing forth the jewels that are hidden within you—is a fine art, in and of itself.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

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