“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to
choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose
our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
“I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought
and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.”
All from Viktor Frankl author of Man’s Search for Meaning and The Will to Meaning
“In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too
painful to remember, I have learned to pay attention to right now. The precise moment I
was in was always the only safe place for me.”
― Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way
“We should write because it is human nature to write. Writing claims our world. It
makes it directly and specifically our own. We should write because humans are
spiritual beings and writing is a powerful form of prayer and meditation, connecting us
both to our own insights and to a higher and deeper level of inner guidance.
We should write because writing brings clarity and passion to the act of living. Writing is
sensual, experiential, grounding. We should write because writing is good for the soul.
We should write because writing yields us a body of work, a felt path through the world
we live in.
We should write, above all, because we are writers, whether we call ourselves that or
not.”
― Julia Cameron, The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation Into the Writing
Life
“No matter what your age or your life path, whether making art is your career or your
hobby or your dream, it is not too late or too egotistical or too selfish or too silly to work
on your creativity.”
― Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way
“What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die.
And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt