Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

Maya Angelou

Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.

Coco Chanel

We are all investors; the currency at our disposal is time and energy.

Tre Wee

What you focus on expands.

Oprah Winfrey

The people who say it can’t be done should get out of the way of those doing it.

Tricia Cunningham

Learning always looks messy at first.

Alan Watts

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I hate slick and pretty things. I prefer mistakes and accidents.

David Lynch

He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.

Jean-Luc Godard

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

William Shakespeare

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

Rumi

Creativity is intelligence having fun.

Albert Einstein

Love is letting go of fear.

Gerald G. Jampolsky

I think perfectionism is just fear in fancy shoes and a mink coat, pretending to be elegant when actually it's just terrified.

Liz Gilbert

You can look at the darkness, just don't stare at it.

Ru Paul

Begin to measure your spiritual maturity not by how easy your life is, but by how easy you are on yourself when things go awry.

Gabby Bernstein

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao Tzu

Everyone’s hurt… You must find some way of using this to connect with everyone else alive… You can use it to connect with other people’s pain and be released from yours.

James Baldwin

I feared boredom and mediocrity much more than I feared failure.

Ray Dalio

Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.

Mike Tyson

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

Henry David Thoreau

A lack of confidence is the heaviest anchor an athlete can wear.

Dave Spitz

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

Muhammad Ali

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

André Gide

What you do speaks so loudly I cannot hear what you are saying.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You lost your muchness, you used to be much muchier.

Lewis Carroll in Alice in Wonderland

The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow.

William Blake

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

C.S. Lewis

Be patient with all that is unresolved within your heart, and try to love the questions.

Rainer Maria Rilke

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There are no such thing as non-creative people. There are just people who use their creativity and people who don't. And unused creativity is not benign.

Brené Brown

A jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one.

William Shakespeare

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

George Orwell

Today is the most important day of our lives.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

William Wordsworth

Don’t think of your website as a self-promotion machine, think of it as a self-invention machine. Online, you can become the person you really want to be. Fill your website with your work and your ideas and the stuff you care about.

Austin Kleon

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

Albert Einstein

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Henry David Thoreau

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

John Lennon

You can't look at the competition and say you're going to do it better. You have to look at the competition and say you're going to do it differently.

Steve Jobs

We have too many unnecessary things everywhere.

Dieter Rams

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry