“Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You cannot get there by bus, only by hard work, risking and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you will discover will be wonderful: Yourself.” ― Alan Alda     “[B]egin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won’t come in.” ― Alan Alda   “At times you have to leave the city of your comfort…

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” ― Aldous Huxley     “Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.” ― Aldous Huxley     “After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” ― Aldous Huxley   “But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.” ― Aldous Huxley     “You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.” ― Aldous Huxley   “Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with…

“The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.” -Henry Ward Beecher “Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another’s heart, or its flame burns low.” -Henry Ward Beecher “The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is, that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.” -Henry Ward Beecher “Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.” – Henry Ward Beecher “A…