Latest Quotes

“To Whom it May Inspire, I, like many of you artists out there, constantly shift between two states. The first (and far more preferable of the two) is white-hot, "in the zone" seat-of-the-pants, firing on all cylinders creative mode. This is when you lay your pen down and the ideas pour out like wine…”

— Austin Madison, Letters Of Note

“You've got to sell your heart, your strongest reactions, not the little minor things that only touch you lightly, the little experiences that you might tell at dinner. This is especially true when you begin to write, when you have not yet developed the tricks of interesting people on paper, when you…”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, Letters Of Note

“No one put a gun to your head and ordered you to become a writer. One writes out of his own choice and must be prepared to take the rough spots along the road with a certain equanimity, though allowed some grinding of the teeth.”

— Stanley Ellin, The Specialty Of The House

“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It…”

— Martha Graham, Blood Memory

“Nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”

— Calvin Coolidge, The Quotable Calvin Coolidge

“Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.”

— Marva Collins, via Tumblr

“Always trust yourself, think for yourself, act for yourself, speak for yourself. Be yourself!”

— Melania Trump, via twitter.com

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”

— Desmond Tutu, The Peace Foundation

“You will ask yourself questions like: what is the history of wind? How did this gust arrive here? Where did it come from and who am I to be blown by it? The storm is blowing people back to their homes, blowing goods back to their factories, blowing factories back to their countries, blowing people b…”

— Hito Steyerl, Liquidity Inc.

“Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grap…”

— Mark Jenkins, Unknown

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes”

— Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

“The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.”

— Rudyard Kipling, In praise of Kipling’s verse, T.S. Eliot

“There is little to the concept of ‘belonging’ other than being possessed by your own haunting need to be completed. It is not being homeless but being a wanderer not searching for a home that sets you free.”

— Julia Laksa, I Lost Myself In My Passions, And We Lost Touch

“Piano remains my secure resort, like a temple for a disillusioned believer, in times of doldrums and uncertainty – but living in a shelter hardly ever tastes of life.”

— Julia Laksa, I Lost Myself In My Passions, And We Lost Touch

“No artist is bred by inner harmony – music felt as the safest form of expression, as it can only be understood by the like-minded.”

— Julia Laksa, I Lost Myself In My Passions, And We Lost Touch

“I was extremely lonely then, trying and failing to find someone speaking the exact same language of burning teenage concerns stemming from the desire to preserve individuality.”

— Julia Laksa, I Lost Myself In My Passions, And We Lost Touch

“When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. But things will happen to us so that we don’t know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.”

— D.H. Lawrence, Escape

“I don’t cry because we’ve been separated by distance, and for a matter of years. Why? Because for as long as we share the same sky and breathe the same air, we’re still together.”

— Donna Lynn Hope, Unknown

“I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.”

— Mary Anne Radmacher, Lean Forward Into Your Life

“Missing someone gets easier every day because even though it’s one day further from the last time you saw each other, it’s one day closer to the next time you will.’”

— Peyton Sawyer, One Tree Hill