"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." --Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If you're this successful doing work you don't love, what could you do with work you do love?" --from This Time I Dance! by Tama Kieves
"The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never have otherwise occurred . . . unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way." --Goethe
"The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity." --C. G. Jung
"Every act of creation begins with an act of destruction." --Picasso
"To be ourselves causes us to be exiled by many others, and yet to comply with what others want causes us to be exiled from ourselves." --Clarissa Pinkola Estes
"Be not the slave of your own past--plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience, that shall explain and overlook the old." --Emerson