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#1

“Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kidergarten. Then wen you hit puberty they take te crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on agebra, history, ect. Being suddenly hit years later with the 'creative bug' is just a wee voice telling you, 'I'd like my crayons back, please.”
― Hugh MacLeod

tags: crayons, creative, inner-child, uninspiring

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#2

“Remember to delight yourself first, then others can be truly delighted."

This was my mantra when I published my first book in 1990, and still holds true. When we focus on the song of our soul and heart, then others will be touched similarly. Sometimes people wonder or worry whether people will like or approve of their creative expression. It's none of your business. It's your business to stay present and focused for the work of your deepest dreams. It might look crooked or strange, or be very odd-but if it delights you, then it is yours, and will find it's way into other hearts.”
― SARK

tags: creative, creative-expression, delight, heart, inspirational, mantra, soul, wonder, worry

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#3

“Buy or borrow self-improvement books, but don't read them. Stack them around your bedroom and use them as places to rest bowls of cookies.

Watch exercise shows on television, but don't do the exercises. Practice believing that the benefit lies in imagining yourself doing the exercises.

Don't power walk. Saunter slowly in the sun, eating chocolate, and carry a blanket so you can take a nap.”
― SARK

tags: humor, inspirational, self-acceptance

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#4

“Inside Critics

The critical voices in our own heads are far more vicious than what we might hear from the outside. Our "inside critics" have intimate knowledge of us and can zero in on our weakest spots.

You might be told by the critics that you're too fat, too old, too young, not intelligent enough, a quitter, not logical, prone to try too many things...
It's all balderdash!

Some elements of these may be true, and it's completely up to you how they affect you. Inside critics are really just trying to protect you. You can:

Learn to dialogue with them.
Give them new jobs.
Turn them into allies.
You can also dismantle/exterminate them.”
― Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy (SARK), A Creative Companion: How to Free Your Creative Spirit

tags: art, creativity, critical-thought, dreaming, inner-critic, procrastination, self-critic, self-criticism, self-esteem, writing

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#5

“Building your "dream life" is filled with things that can feel like the opposite of a dream:
Mistakes
Delays
Starting over
Failure

The building part is actually more of a rebuilding that is a continual process. The building is not linear in nature but far more interesting. You might start a creative dream, take the "next step", and find yourself completely bored, dissatisfied, or just not inspired. ”
― Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy (SARK), Make Your Creative Dreams Real: A Plan for Procrastinators, Perfectionists, Busy People, and People Who Would Really Rather Sleep All Day

tags: art, creativity, dreaming, procrastination, writing

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#6

“Being tame is what we're taught: ... put the crayons back, stay in line, don't talk too loud, keep your knees together, nice girls don't...
As you might know, nice girls DO, and they like to feel wild and alive. Being tame feels safe, being wild, unsafe. Yet safety is an illusion anyway. We are not in control. No matter how dry and tame and nice we live, we will die. And we will suffer along the way. Living wild is its own reward.”
― SARK

tags: conservatism, life, nice-girls, safety, tame, wild, women

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#7

“I envision a world filled with women traveling alone and meeting each other on the path.”
― SARK, Succulent Wild Woman

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#8

“My godchild Zoe, age 6, suddenly said: "Can you describe what romance is?" I talked about wooing, and yearning, and she sighed and leaned back, "I think that love is my favorite thing in this whole world..." Me too, Zoe, me too.”
― SARK, Eat Mangoes Naked: Finding Pleasure Everywhere

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#9

“We are made to cluster together with kindred spirits.”
― S.A.R.K.

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#10

“When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: advantage, alienation, alienation-versus-humanity, art, artist, authenticity, awkward, brain, compromise, craft, creative, fierce, genuine, humanity, humanity-versus-alienation, imagination, introversion, isolation, life, loner, originality, perspective, purity, social, socially-awkward, solitude, writing

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#11

“Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: autotune, bandwagon, compassion, culture, fads, flattery, gossip, knowledge, love, music, news, peace, pity, pop, pop-culture, pop-music, popular, popular-culture, popular-music, propaganda, singing, tension, trends

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#12

“A young outcast will often feel that there is something wrong with himself, but as he gets older, grows more confident in who he is, he will adapt, he will begin to feel that there is something wrong with everyone else.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: adaptation, anger, attitude, bullied, bully, bullying, confidence, confidence-and-attitude, encouragement, growth, inspirational, introvert, loneliness, motivational, outcast, pain, youth

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#13

“What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: complex, creative, different, difficulties, distinction, envy, genius, genius-distinction, independent, independent-thought, inferiority, inferiority-complex, intimidating, misunderstanding, odd, privacy, self-sufficiency, simplicity, superiority

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#14

“To me it seems that too many young women of this time share the same creed. 'Live, laugh, love, be nothing but happy, experience everything, et cetera et cetera.' How monotonous, how useless this becomes. What about the honors of Joan of Arc, Beauvoir, Stowe, Xena, Princess Leia, or women that would truly fight for something other than just their own emotions?”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: beauvoir, creed, emotion, et-cetera, fighting-for-truth, independence, joan-of-arc, love, meaning, monotony, passion, princess-leia, purpose, sacrifice, stowe, strength, xena

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#15

“I don't want to pass through life like a smooth plane ride. All you do is get to breathe and copulate and finally die. I don't want to go with the smooth skin and the calm brow. I hope I end up a blithering idiot cursing the sun - hallucinating, screaming, giving obscene and inane lectures on street corners and public parks. People will walk by and say, "Look at that drooling idiot. What a basket case." I will turn and say to them, "It is you who are the basket case. For every moment you hated your job, cursed your wife and sold yourself to a dream that you didn't even conceive. For the times your soul screamed yes and you said no. For all of that. For your self-torture, I see the glowing eyes of the sun! The air talks to me! I am at all times!" And maybe, the passers by will drop a coin into my cup.”
― Henry Rollins

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#16

“General Wolf Rules For Life
1. Eat
2. Rest
3. Rove in between
4. Render loyalty
5. Love the children
6. Cavil in the moonlight
7. Tune your ears
8. Attend to the bones
9. Make love
10. Howl”
― Clarissa Pinkola Est茅s, Women Who Run With the Wolves

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#17

“One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Est茅s

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#18

“Many of us have lived desert lives: very small on the surface, and enormous under the ground.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Est茅s, Women Who Run With the Wolves

tags: desert-life, women-who-run-with-wolves

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#19

“Sometimes a woman is afraid to be without security or without certainty, for even a short time. She has more excuses than dogs have hairs. She must just simply dive in and stand not knowing what will happen next.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Est茅s, Women Who Run With the Wolves

tags: afraid, ambiguity, certainty, dive, excuses, not-knowing, security, women-who-run-with-wolves

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#20

“A woman must be able to stand in the face of power, because ultimately some part of that power will become hers.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Est茅s, Women Who Run With the Wolves

tags: power, wild-woman, woman, women-who-run-with-wolves

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#21

“The things that women reclaim are often their own voice, their own values, their imagination, their clairvoyance, their stories, their ancient memories. If we go for the deeper, and the darker, and the less known we will touch the bones.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Est茅s

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#22

“I have met my self and I am going to care for her fiercely.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Love Warrior

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#23

“If you feel something calling you to dance or write or paint or sing, please refuse to worry about whether you鈥檙e good enough. Just do it. Be generous. Offer a gift to the world that no one else can offer: yourself.”
― Glennon Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

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#24

“We think our job as humans is to avoid pain, our job as parents is to protect our children from pain, and our job as friends is to fix each other's pain. Maybe that's why we all feel like failures so often - because we all have the wrong job description for love.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Love Warrior

tags: friendship, love, pain, parenting

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#25

“How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?”
― Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers

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#26

“You go your way
I'll go your way too”
― Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing

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#27

“I have often prayed for you
like this
Let me have her”
― Leonard Cohen

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#28

“My page was too white
My ink was too thin
The day wouldn't write
What the night pencilled in”
― Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing

tags: leonard-cohen

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#29

“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

tags: books, journey, reading, travel

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#30

“Advice? I don鈥檛 have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you鈥檙e writing, you鈥檙e a writer. Write like you鈥檙e a goddamn death row inmate and the governor is out of the country and there鈥檚 no chance for a pardon. Write like you鈥檙e clinging to the edge of a cliff, white knuckles, on your last breath, and you鈥檝e got just one last thing to say, like you鈥檙e a bird flying over us and you can see everything, and please, for God鈥檚 sake, tell us something that will save us from ourselves. Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we鈥檙e not alone. Write like you have a message from the king. Or don鈥檛. Who knows, maybe you鈥檙e one of the lucky ones who doesn鈥檛 have to.”
― Alan Wilson Watts

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