Pretend to be something you’re not until you are — fake it until you’re successful, until everybody sees you the way you want them. - Austin Kleon

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked.” — Steve Jobs If

LEAVE THINGS BETTER THAN YOU FOUND THEM.

As in all kinds of work, there is a distinction between the painter’s process, and the products of her process.