#inspiration

"Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit"

"Personally, I wouldn’t wait around for someone to tell you you’re good enough before you make your own comics. Just make them, always try to improve and care about what you’re doing. Be relentless and never give up."

"When you give appreciation IN ORDER TO get something– it's manipulation and people can sense it. Appreciate genuinely."

"Music is the beat of a drum that keeps time with our emotions."

"Reading, conversation, environment, culture, heroes, mentors, nature – all are lottery tickets for creativity. Scratch away at them and you’ll find out how big a prize you’ve won."

"The best writers I've read possess oodles of self-doubt, yet claw their way up with each work and remain humble. Boastful ones, not so much."

"I’ve grown up defined by this desperate, undeniable, ‘can’t breathe’ kind of space inside of myself and I’m afraid that the diagnosis is fatal."

"Wizards are always hungry."

"To soar, we must leave anything that weighs us down..."

"blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born."

"Belief isn't supposed to make sense, at least not all the time. In that, it finds its power. It gets to creep up on you and carry you forward. Until you can carry yourself again."

"Even a single lamp dispels the deepest darkness."

"You need to trustTo surrenderTo ask for guidanceGo within for the answersThey're within youYou have the answersAll you need do is ask"

"Always be open to inspiration. You never know where it may come from. Begin with an open mind, end with an inspired heart."

"I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move against me while you sleep & there are no words for that."

"Every game is winnable if you change your mind about what the prize should be and your perspective about the players at the table."

"Sometimes you can learn, even from a bad experience. By coping you become stronger. The pain does not go away, but it becomes manageable."

"That’s what being alive is, Thing! It’s being badly prepared for everything! Because you only get one chance, Thing!"

"The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience"

"We can become inspired to shape a higher, more ideal future, and when we do, miracles happen."