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- Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
- Stephen Nachmanovitch
- Creativity is...seeing something that doesn't exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God.
- Michele Shea
- Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure.
- Piero Ferrucci
- You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.
- Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000
- Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, Ethan of Athos, 1986
- To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly; and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)
- Let us, then be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labour and to wait. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
- Resentment is anger directed at others--at what they did or did not do.
- Peter McWilliams, Life 101
- Guilt is anger directed at ourselves--at what we did or did not do.
- Peter McWilliams, Life 101
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