Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself. - Julia Cameron

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

I think I could learn a little patience with myself if I took a view of myself that included concepts like dormancy (instead of laziness), seed planting (instead of just scattered), gestation (instead of doing-something-right-this-second).

The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all.