Life Celebration Quotes
Crafted with the reader in mind, this collection is clearly divided by themes:
Self-control, Meditation, Peace
Inspiration / Motivation
Character / Integrity
Knowledge / Truth
Humor / Laughter
Agatha Christie
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
Take any challenge as a creative opportunity.
Alexandra Watkins
Turn your demons into art, your shadow into a friend, your failures into teachers, your weaknesses into reasons to keep fighting. Don't waste your pain. Recycle your heart.
Andrea Balt
I’ve learned that time is my most valuable resource. How I spend it, where I spend it, and who I spend it with is the key to making me feel whole as a leader, parent, creative partner, and friend.
Andrea Jacobs
Art is something that makes you breathe with a different kind of happiness.
Anni Albers
There is no recipe, there is no one way to do things — there is only your way. And if you can recognize that in yourself and accept and appreciate that in others, you can make magic.
Ara Katz
The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags – they’re gonna cough.
Barbra Streisand
Like the sand and the oyster, it’s a creative irritant. In each poem, I’m trying to reveal a truth, so it can’t have a fictional beginning.
Carol Ann Duffy
Everyone has creativity within them. It’s just a matter of unlocking that creativity
Christina Canters
Creativity is an ongoing process. When I first started in my role, I found a quote in a magazine that resonated with me. It said “Use your imagination.” I cut it out and taped it on my computer monitor. Sixteen years have passed and I am still reminded daily that the success of our company is founded on being open and receptive to creativity and the inevitability of change.
Cyndie Martini
I don’t know much about creative writing programs. But they’re not telling the truth if they don’t teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.
Doris Lessing
People hate their own art because it looks like they made it. They think if they get better, it will stop looking like they made it. A better person made it. But there’s no level of skill beyond which you stop being you. You hate the most valuable thing about your art.
Elicia Donze
Technology is simply a tool supporting human brilliance.
Gail S. Ayers
Georgia O'Keeffe
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way... things I had no words for.
Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.
June Jordan
Creativity and invention are the mother’s milk of success for the future.
Lisa Picard
Margaret Atwood
What matters is how the art makes you feel.
Any novel is hopeful in that it presupposes a reader. It is, actually, a hopeful act just to write anything, really, because you’re assuming that someone will be around to [read] it.
The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is a scientific one: dipping a thread into a supersaturated solution to induce crystal formation.
Maya Angelou
You can’t use up creativity. The more you use it, the more you have.
Creativity is born of the desperate, immutable, hopeless and untenable need to understand humanity, the world, and its machinations.
Naomi Ladizinsky
The secret to life is to put your self in the right lighting. For some, it’s a Broadway spotlight; for others, a lamplit desk. Use your natural powers - of persistence, concentration, and insight - to do work you love and work that matters. Solve problems. Make art. Think deeply.
Susan Cain
Some people will always be deaf to your song. Don’t stop signing.
Trudy Jane
The creative adult is the child who survived.
Ursula K. Le Guin
I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.
Ursula K. Le Guin
