Your talents are worth your devotion. Stop saying you don't have time or it might not make money. Your talents are another form of oxygen you need to breathe in this lifetime.

You could wait for the world to invite you to the banquet and the ball. Or you could just show up in your red dress and your headdress ready to boogie.

Doing work you love is the dizzying path of saying yes to yourself and yes to a brilliant, hidden self you do not yet know.

If everyone is speaking caterpillar, don’t be afraid to speak butterfly. When it’s time to awaken, nothing else will suit you.

WIth both trepidation and relief, I abandoned pragmatism in favor of magnetism.

You can't force yourself to say "yes" to a bigger life. You will do it in your way. You will do it when smallness hurts too much.

You belong in the life of your dreams. And you don't belong anywhere else.

Just start dancing and the band will find you.

You are meant to succeed in the work you love. Your desire will take you all the way.

There is no higher qualification than genuine inspiration.

It doesn't matter how you begin. Just jump in. Get moving.

Yeah, well, wish in one hand, crap in the other, and see which fills up first

Q. But it seems to me there are circumstances that simply induce one to have negative emo

We do not see the world through a window, but through a mirror. Everything we discern is comparatively held to the vision with which we see ourselves.

You are a monster, deathly, solipsistic to the bone and you’re blasphemous because all you want is You

Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions.

A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory.

When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself "Yes indeed, all that belongs to me!"

I was a D student in high school and on the dean's list in college.

Remember: life is a rhythm between day and night, summer and winter. It is a continuous rhythm. Never stop anywhere! Be moving! And the bigger the swing, the deeper your experience will be.

"Cannonball Adderley said, 'First 20 minutes we'll jazz out, then the last hour it's gonna be songs that people paid to see.' Which is why he was driving a Rolls-Royce."