Maddy Cartwright

“No one is coming to save you; no one is coming to make life right for you; no one is coming to solve your problems. If you don’t do something, nothing is going to get better. The dream of a rescuer who will deliver us may offer a kind of comfort, but it leaves us passive and powerless. We may feel if only I suffer long enough, if only I yearn desperately enough, somehow a miracle will happen, but this is the kind of self-deception one pays for with one’s life as it drains away into the abyss of unredeemable possibilities and irretrievable days, months, decades.”
― Nathaniel Branden, Six Pillars of Self-Esteem

“Worn out by suffering, we lie on our great backs,
tossing grass up to heaven—as a distraction, not a prayer.

That’s not humility you see on our long final journeys
it’s procrastination. It hurts my heavy body to lie down.

— Dan Chiasson, from “The Elephant,” Natural History. (Knopf; First edition. edition October 11, 2005)”
― Dan Chiasson

“Life doesn’t stop. And every single second, we’re getting closer to death.”
― Darius Foroux, Do It Today: Overcome Procrastination, Improve Productivity, and Achieve More Meaningful Things

“An artist obsessed with perfection is bound to dim the light of his art.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes