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Quote by Scilla Elworthy

“I have a little mantra: My fear grows fat on the energy I feed it. And if it grows very big, it probably happens.”

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Scilla Elworthy is a British author born on June 3, 1943. Her works primarily focus on peace, conflict resolution, and leadership. Elworthy is renowned for her contributions to nonviolent action and global security issues. more

“You honor your writing space by recovering, if you are an addict. You honor your writing space by becoming an anxiety expert, a real pro at mindfulness and personal calming. You honor your writing space by affirming that you matter, that your writing life matters, and that your current writing project matters. You honor your writing space by entering it with this mantra: “I am ready to work.” You enter, grow quiet, and vanish into your writing.”

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Author:Eric Maisel

“Love is the spirit that motivates the artist's journey. The love may sublime, raw, obsessive, passionate, awful. or thrilling, but whatever its quality, it's a powerful motive in the artist's life.”

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Book:Creativity for Life: Practical Advice on the Artist's Personality, and Career from America's Foremost Creativity Coach

Source: Creativity for Life: Practical Advice on the Artist's Personality, and Career from America's Foremost Creativity Coach

“It is a paradoxical statement, but it takes incredible personal discipline to play with great freedom.”

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Author:Dick Bennett

“I must learn what I can to teach what I must.”

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Author:Dick Bennett

“As a scientist, I can not help feeling that all religions are on a tottering foundation. None is perfect or inspired.The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me. I don't want to have anything to do with such a God.”

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Author:Luther Burbank

“A theory of personal resurrection or reincarnation of the individual is untenable when we but pause to consider the magnitude of the idea. On the contrary, I must believe that rather than the survival of all, we must look for survival only in the spirit of the good we have done in passing through.Once obsolete, an automobile is thrown to the scrap heap. Once here and gone, the human life has likewise served its purpose. If it has been a good life, it has been sufficient. There is no need for another.”

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