"don't ask what the world needs, ask what makes you come alive and go do that. because what the world needs is more people that have come alive."

"put your creativity where your frustration is"

"creativity is intelligence having fun"

"life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass but to learn how to dance in the rain." ~ vivian greene

"don't compare your life to others. there's no comparison between the sun and the moon. they shine when it's their time."

"adventure shatters the oppresive, insistent reality as if it were a piece of glass. it is the unforeseen, the unthought-of, the new. each adventure is a new birth of the world, a unique process. how can it fail to be interesting? ~ josé ortega y gasset, meditations on quixote. (seen on academy of ideas )