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"There’s no such thing as creative and not-creative beings. We are all creative. And the worst part is, unused creativity – creativity that’s been disowned – is not benign. It’s painful. It metastasizes and turns into dangerous things."
– Brené Brown
"Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer."
– Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace
"If you work hard and creatively, you can have just about anything you want, but not everything you want. Maturity is the ability to reject good alternatives in order to pursue even better ones."
– Ray Dahlio
"If your compassion does not include yourself it is incomplete."
– Jack Kornfield
"Let death be what takes us, not a lack of imagination."
– BJ Miller
"Don’t ask what the world needs, ask what makes you come alive, because what the world needs is more people who have come alive."
– Howard Thurman (1899-1981)
"Paul Valéry said: the opening line of a poem is like finding a fruit in the ground, a piece of fallen fruit you have never seen before, and the poet’s task is to create the tree from which such a fruit would fall."
– from Mary Ruefle’s Madness, Rack, and Honey
"A quick prayer: Oh lord, give me health and strength. We’ll steal the rest."
– Fishhooks McCarthy (supposedly)
"It’s okay to be afraid. You will be afraid. The trick is agreeing/learning to dance with your fear."
– Seth Godin