What makes you come alive

Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

~ Howard Thurman

A second time

Never travel to any road a second time. 

~ Ibn Batthtah

The creator's function

The creator's function is to sift the elements he receives from [imagination], for human activity must impose limits on itself. The more art is controlled, limited, worked over, the more it is free.

~ Igor Stravinsky

If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.​

~ Thomas Edison​

Be daring, be different, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers…

~ Cecil Beaton

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.

~ Dr. Seuss