Get ready for quote purging!! because my sticky notes are covering my computer and it's getting ridiculous.

Dis how I been living my life:

"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"fatalism is a species of fear-the fear that your fate is in your own hands, and your hands are weak"

"Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the romance of the unusual"

-Ernest Hemingway

"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender." -Tupac Shakur 

"examine the contents, not the bottle" 

"We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us in our soundest sleep. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor. It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts."
--Henry David Thoreau, "What I Lived For," Walden

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

-Lao-Tzu, Chinese philosopher

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

-Vince Lombardi

If you are bored with life, if you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don’t have enough goals.

- Lou Holtz

How much larger your life would be if your self could become smaller

in it; if you could really look at other men with common curiosity and

pleasure. You would begin to be interested in them, because they

were not interested in you. You would break out ofthis tiny and tawdry theatre in which your own little plot is always being played, and you would find yourselves under a freer sky, in a street full of splendid strangers.

-G. K. Chesterton

 Whatever they have is something needed to do their work. Their magic is theirs. You don't lack it. You don't need it. It has nothing to do with you. Period.

"There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthrough can happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is all about" 

- Helen Frankenthaler

Each spasm of selfishness narrows one's universe that much more. Selfishness causes us to settle for so much less than that which we are capable of as it relentlessly shrinks our supply of selfesteem.

-neil l maxwell

"Remember that I love you dearly and think of you often! Remember that God loves you, I love you, and Satan hates your guts. He's just annoying and doesn't want any of us to truly be happy. Turn to Heavenly Father because His arms are always open."

-Ally Smart

"Hence, I say any movement towards creation is good, because even if the creation ends up weaker than you'd hoped, you still brought into existence a thing pointed in the direction you are aiming for, and hence you inch yourself in that direction as well."

"good looking people, they got no spine. their art never lasts"
-almost famous

Pay no attention to those who talk behind your back; it only means that you're two steps ahead of them.
-unkown