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Remember to delight yourself first, then others can be truly delighted." This was my mantra when I published my first book in 1990, and still holds true. When we focus on the song of our soul and heart, then others will be touched similarly. Sometimes people wonder or worry whether people will like or approve of their creative expression. It's none of your business. It's your business to stay present and focused for the work of your deepest dreams. It might look crooked or strange, or be very odd-but if it delights you, then it is yours, and will find it's way into other hearts. ↗

— S.A.R.K.

#creative-expression #delight #heart #inspirational #mantra

The lead actor, along with the director, plays a big role in what the vibe will be on set, and that's a huge responsibility. ↗

— Nicholas Hoult

#along #big #director #huge #huge responsibility

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness. Enough to eat, enough to go around. The possibility that kids might one day grow up to be neither the destroyers nor the destroyed. That’s about it. Right now I'm living in that hope, running down its hallway and touching the walls on both sides. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#dreams

Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#cannot #creation #development #does #final

My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#aim #create #deepest #emanate #experience

First, to be able to love, then to learn that body and spirit are one. ↗

— Hugo von Hofmannsthal

#body #first #learn #love #spirit

It always takes longer than you expect, even if you take Hofstadter's Law into account. ↗

— Douglas Hofstadter

#always #even #expect #into #law

It's true. It's like the hidden secret that no one tells you. we can all be beautiful girls, Colie. it's so easy. it's like Dorothy clicking her heels to go home. You could do it all along. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#sarah-dessen #beauty

The Nobel Prize is given as a personal award but it also honors the field of research in which I have worked and it also honors my students and colleagues. ↗

— Robert Hofstadter

#award #colleagues #field #given #honors

I couldn't wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again. ↗

— Ben Hogan

#come #could #course #get #i