"And did they get you to trade
Your heros for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
And did you exchange
A walk on part in the war
For a lead role in a cage?"

~ Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily." ~ Zig Ziglar

"I know a drugstore cowgirl, so afraid of getting bored. She's always running from something, so many things ignored."

~311

“Everyone needs fudge, Hildy. It's how God helps us cope.”
― Joan Bauer, Peeled

"Life is too short for self-hatred and celery sticks."
-Marilyn Wann

"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."

~Friedrich Nietzsche

“The job is what you do when you are told what to do. The job is showing up at the factory, following instructions, meeting spec, and being managed.

Someone can always do your job a little better or faster or cheaper than you can.

The job might be difficult, it might require skill, but it's a job.

Your art is what you do when no one can tell you exactly how to do it. Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.

I call the process of doing your art 'the work.' It's possible to have a job and do the work, too. In fact, that's how you become a linchpin.

The job is not the work.”
― Seth Godin, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."
~Pablo Picasso

"I ain't looking for answers
I don't want nothing for free
I sure don't want your respect
I just wanna know who's talking to me
I just wanna know who's talkin' to me"

~Rancid

"There are people who have money and people who are rich."
~Coco Chanel

“You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun.”
― Shaun Hick

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
~Aesop

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
~Jim Rohn

"You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again."
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"Well, I don't know, but I've been told
You never slow down, you never grow old
I'm tired of screwin' up, tired of going down
Tired of myself, tired of this town."
~Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers

 THIS:

I've always been "too much" or "never enough". At the point I care about the work I make because that's what actually lasts & matters

— Sky Ferreira (@skyferreira) June 21, 2016

“Happiness…leads none of us by the same route.”

~Charles Caleb Colton