Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.
Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
Learning gives creativity. Creativity leads to thinking. Thinking provides knowledge. Knowledge makes you great.
If you gave your inner genius as much credence as your inner critic, you would be light years ahead of where you now stand.
The road to enlightenment is paved with authenticity, not imitation.
Failure is success in progress.
Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.
There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.
Vulnerability is the core of shame and fear and our struggle for worthiness, but it appears that it’s also the birthplace of joy, of creativity, of belonging, of love.
Normality is a fine ideal for those who have no imagination.
Invent yourself and then reinvent yourself.
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
Why fit in when you were born to stand out?
Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!
You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.
Instead of competing, all we have to do is create.
If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness, and creativity.
Don’t waste time waiting for inspiration. Begin, and inspiration will find you.