Inspiration

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Inspiration doesn’t descend like a
  lightning bolt from the gods. Inspiration
  comes instead from a steady breath, a
  solid foundation, and a commitment to
  the process.

Laraine Herring

What is inside you

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If you bring forth what is inside you,
what you bring forth will save you.
If you don't bring forth what is inside you,
what you bring forth can destroy you.

Jesus, Gnostic gospel of Thomas

Three questions

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If I am not for myself, who will be for me?
If I am only for myself, what am I?
If not now, when?

Rabbi Hillel

Painting portraits

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There is still something to be said for painting portraits of the people we have loved, for trying to express those moments that seem so inexpressibly beautiful, the ones that change us and deepen us.

Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Function of freedom

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The function of freedom is to free someone else.

Toni Morrison

We

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We fly; we dream in darkness; we devour heaven in bites too small to be measured.

Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost