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My dear fellow, art has nothing to do with sincerity.
— Oscar Wilde
On the Working Life
Trifles make the sum of life.
— Charles Dickens
On Focus & Distraction
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
— Charles Dickens
On Confidence
I have been bent and broken, but, I hope, into a better shape.
— Charles Dickens
On Starting Over
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
— Leonard Cohen
On Purpose
I'd cancel my subscription to your issues.
— Leonard Cohen
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.
— Leonard Cohen
On Starting Over
One must always be careful of books, and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.
— Cassandra Clare
On Focus & Distraction
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have li…
— J.K. Rowling
On Confidence
It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them.
— Bob Dylan
On the Working Life
To begin always anew, to make, to reconstruct, and to not spoil, to refuse to bureaucratize the mind, to understand and…
— Paulo Freire
On Starting Over
Love is not something you feel. It is something you do.
— bell hooks
On the Working Life
We are all broken. That's how the light gets in.
— Ernest Hemingway
On Starting Over
Write hard and clear about what hurts.
— Ernest Hemingway
On the Working Life
All things truly wicked start from innocence.
— Ernest Hemingway
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my professio…
— John Steinbeck
On the Working Life
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
— John Steinbeck
On the Working Life
It is the nature of man as he grows older to protest against change, particularly change for the better.
— John Steinbeck
On Starting Over
And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.
— John Steinbeck
On Starting Over
A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.
— Archibald MacLeish
On Purpose
Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.
— Rumi
On Purpose
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
— William Hutchison Murray
On Confidence
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, t…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
On Focus & Distraction
Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.
— Steven Tyler
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
— James Joyce
On Discipline
We are not retreating — we are advancing in another direction.
— Douglas MacArthur
On Starting Over
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won.
— Mahatma Gandhi
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
— Albert Einstein
On the Working Life
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant.
— Albert Einstein
On Focus & Distraction
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the universe.
— Albert Einstein
On Focus & Distraction