“Seeing shapes and colours without the burden of thinking about what they are will liberate your creative mind, inform your visual resources and alleviate intellectual interference.” —Philippa Stanton

“Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.” —Hermann Hesse

“I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.” —Stephenie Meyer

“Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.” —Samuel Johnson

“Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself.” —Mark Twain

“Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.” —Carl Sandburg

“Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.” —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“It's our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting. Are they fun when they happen? No. But they are what make us unique.“ —Ellen DeGeneres

“There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.” —Guy Gavriel Kay

“That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.” —Edgar Allan Poe