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"Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling."
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"No man engaged in a work he does not like can preserve many saving illusionsabout himself. The distaste, the absence of glamour, extend from the occupation to the personality. It is only when ourappointed activities seem by a lucky accident to obey the particular earnestness of our temperament that we can taste the comfort of complete self-deception."
"If you are a singer, you must sing. If you are a dancer, you must dance. If you are a writer, you must write. Don't suffocate your heart."
"I wrote because I had to. I couldn't stop. There wasn't anything else I could do. If no one ever bought anything anything I ever did I'd still be writing. It's beyond a compulsion."
"The answer is neither job, nor paycheck; it is authentic, holistic work born from states of awareness and being. Through the coalescence of joy, wonder, enthusiasm, appreciation, experimentation, perpetual curiosity, exploring new avenues, welcoming surprise and wandering, I have begun the next leg of my journey; I have brought the spirit of the traveler home."
"You can't possibly know that you're going to be a writer!" Miss Frost said. "It's not a career choice."
"A true writer is someone the gods have called to the task."
"Dostoevski was on to something. You are the path you choose. You are what your vocation is."
"The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function."
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"But are not this struggle and even the mistakes one may make better and do they not develop us more than if we kept systematically away from emotions?"
"In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically."
"If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."
"Well, right now it seems that things are going very badly for me, have been doing so for some considerable time, and may continue to do so well into the future. But it is possible that everything will get better after it has all seemed to go wrong. I am not counting on it, it may never happen, but if there should be a change for the better I should regard that as a gain, I should rejoice, I should say, at last! So there was something after all!"
"One of the most beautiful things to do is to paint darkness, which nevertheless has light in it."
"If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning."
"It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done."
"What is drawing? How does one learn it? It is working through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do."
"It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that, whenever we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation-of loneliness, poverty, and misery, the end and extreme of things-the thought of God comes into one's mind."
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