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Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright
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I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein, German-born physicist and recipient of the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
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There ain’t no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.
Kate DiCamillo, Because of Winn-Dixie
Because of Winn-Dixie is one of my favorite books of all time, and I recently rewatched the movie with my parents. My mom had been wanting to rewatch it for some time, and it was so nice to revisit it. I also have to say that it didn’t hit me the first dozen times watching it that it has one of the most stacked casts of any non-Oscar baity movie I’ve ever seen. Eva Marie Saint? Cicely Tyson? Jeff Daniels? Dave Matthews? And that’s not even including two of the younger cast members, AnnaSophia Robb and Elle Fanning. If you’ve never seen the movie or read the book, there’s no better time than right now.
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Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.
Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple Inc.
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The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela, anti-apartheid activist and first president of South Africa from 1994-1999
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Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
I need to make a confession: I lied to one of my high school teachers about reading Les Misérables all the way through about twelve years ago and it’s haunted me ever since. I’m going to get through it this year, I swear.
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Tell me, what is it you plan to do / with your one wild and precious life?
from “Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver, in her poetry collection Dream Work
“Wild Geese” was one of the first poems by Mary Oliver that I ever encountered, and I’ve been a disciple of hers ever since. She exists in my mind among the world’s greatest writers, living or dead (she passed away in 2019). I carry the words of “Wild Geese” always in my heart, as an urgent reminder of not just my mortality but my own unique aliveness. There are things we are all given to do, and if one is really lucky (my mother hates the word lucky, so for her I will leave the word blessed here), they’re allowed to share what they’ve been given to others. This is the sole purpose and the grand design of all artistic creation.
There are things we are all given to do, and if one is really lucky (my mother hates the word lucky, so for her I will leave the word blessed here), they’re allowed to share what they’ve been given to others. This is the sole purpose and the grand design of all artistic creation.
I just realized the poem I pulled today’s quote from talks about geese and the picture I’ve provided is of a tit. I think I’ll let it stand.
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I curated my life to be an expression of my pain. By creating somebody that I felt was stronger than me.
Lady Gaga
I love this quote by Lady Gaga. A lot of people look at her art and life and see only the glamor and artifice they associate with this persona she’s created over her career. What they don’t realize is that many people who lead creative lives, who create art as a means of survival, who depend on it for their living, channel everything they have into their art. So you’re not just getting the joy and the wonder that all of us who are blessed enough to spend time on this planet enjoy, but you’re also getting the trauma and the deeply-held secrets and the pain — so much pain — that we mask and subsume otherwise we’d never leave our rooms again.
I think art forces us to be braver. It forces us to become the best versions of ourselves that we can be. And in the times we can’t be that best version, when we can’t take the high road, when we have to forego that dream of something better, it forces us to look that in the eye — and that in itself is a gift.
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