When inspiration does not come, I go half way to meet it.
- Freud

Mozart is said to have asked, “What would music sound like if the notes loved each other?”

Every man has his own vocation. The talent is the call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. He has faculties silently inviting him thither to endless exertion. He is like a ship in a river; he runs against obstructions on every side but one; on that side all obstruction is taken away, and he sweeps serenely over God’s depths into an infinite sea. This talent and this call depend on his organization, or the mode in which a general soul incarnates in him. He inclines to do something which is easy to him, and good when it is done, but which no other man can do. He has no rival. For the more truly he consults his own powers, the more difference will his work exhibit from the work of any other. When he is true and faithful, his ambition is exactly proportional to his powers. By doing his work he makes the need felt which he can supply.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

In times of change the learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
- Eric Hoffer

"If you want to reach the sky, you better learn how to kneel."

- Bono, She Moves In Mysterious Ways

"Hypothetically, people worry about everyone being selfishly oriented. "If everyone did exactly what they want to do, what kind of world would this be?" And we say, a really, really good one. Because if everyone did what they wanted to do, everyone would feel free. And if you feel free, you feel empowered. And every negative emotion that exists—hear this—every negative emotion that exists is because there is some sense of loss of freedom somewhere in there."

- Abraham Hicks

What's the point of talking to anyone if you don't tell it like it is?
- John Krakauer, author of Into The Wild

Our deep human sexuality will be fulfilled only when we discover that the lover we seek is divine and beyond finding.
- Thomas Moore