Deepen

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

Francis Bacon

Courage

Courage is just dreams with shoes on.

Reba Riley

Attend

My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind.

William James

Read

No two persons ever read the same book.

Edmund Wilson

Within

What is within surrounds you.

RM Rilke

Heaven

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

Henry David Thoreau

Real

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore 

Surprise

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved.

Charles Morgan

Play

Life must be lived as play.

Plato

Discovery

We are magnets in an iron globe. We have keys to all doors. We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Used

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

George Bernard Shaw 

Inside

At times I feel as if I am spread out over the landscape and inside things, and am myself living in every tree, in the splashing of the waves, in the clouds and the animals that come and go, in the procession of the seasons.

Carl Gustav Jung

Risk

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Herbert Otto

Paradox

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

Lao Tzu 

Anew

You cannot solve a problem from the same consciousness that created it. You must learn to see the world anew.

Albert Einstein

Radiate

The hero, in living her own life, in being true to herself - radiates a light by which others may see their own way.

Laurence G. Boldt 

Cage

How can a bird that is born for joy,

Sit in a cage and sing?

William Blake

Build

It’s like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. The story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

Patrick Rothfuss

Inspired

When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bounds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.

Patanjali 

Discover

And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, 
no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, 
a journey of one inch, 
very arduous and humbling and joyful, 
by which we arrive at the ground at our own feet, 
and learn to be at home.

Wendell Berry