Julia Putman

“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.”
― M. Scott Peck

“It's the pointless things that give your life meaning. Friendship, compassion, art, love. All of them pointless. But they're what keeps life from being meaningless.”
― Tim Winton

“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”
― Émile Zola

“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”
― Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics