Be easy about it. Don't rush into things. Savor them more. Make more plans and be more deliberate and specific about the plans you are making, and in all you do, let your dominant intent be to find that which pleasures you as you imagine it. Let your desire for pleasure and your desire for feeling good be your only guiding light. As you seek those thoughts that feel good, you will always be in vibrational harmony with the Energy that is your Source. And under those conditions, only good can come to you -- and only good can come from you.
- Abraham-Hicks

Success takes crazy, passionate people who believe they can change the world. Success doesn't take "professional" and "proven" people.
- Guy Kawasaki, Reality Check

Writing a novel is like trying to knock together a chicken coop in the middle of a hurricane.
- Faulkner

Advice for writers:
show up, pay attention, tell the truth, and don't be attached to results.
- Rosellen Brown

Catch an eyeful
catch and earful,
and don't drop what you have caught.
- William Carlos Williams

Inspiration is very polite. She knocks softly and then goes away if we don't answer the door.
- Mary Pipher

We get into trouble in the spirit when we give up any of these: when beauty turns into sentimentality or propaganda, when architecture and the other arts unconscious or considered secondary, when we forget the importance of ongoing, lifelong learning in all areas as support for the spiritual life, and especially when we make spiritual practice the project of creating a certain kind of self.
- Thomas Moore