“No matter how buried it gets, or lost you feel, you must promise me, that you will hold on to hope and keep it alive. We have to be greater than what we suffer. My wish for you is to become hope. People need that.” - Peter Parker

"The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward." - Steve Maraboli

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"The steps you take don't need to be big; they just need to take you in the right direction." - Jemma Simmons

"Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies." - Stephen King

“To create one’s own world takes courage.” - Georgia O’Keeffe

"I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite." - Shane Koyczan

"I don’t necessarily sit around inviting life to knock me down, but when it does I don’t wait around for an invitation to stand back up either." - Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.” - Dalai Lama

“If you found out you were dying, would you be nicer, love more, try something new? Well, you are. We all are.” - Lisa Starr

Think about any attachments that are messing with your inspiration and flow. Now consider letting them go.

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” - Paulo Coelho

“Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'” - Mary Anne Radmacher

The Universe knows you’re scared. I know this is not news, but you need to hear this... I’m scared, you’re scared...we’re all scared. The difference is whether you’re going to keep moving.

I try to do good in the World, not out of fear or for a reward, but because it feels better not to be an asshole.

“God, let me think clearly and brightly; let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences, let me someday see who I am.” - Sylvia Plath

It costs you nothing to be nice. It costs you nothing to be a decent human being. Seriously!

"Sometimes you could get rid of the ghosts that were haunting your life if you could only work up enough courage to face them." - Stephen King

"Head clear. Mouth shut. See much. Say little." - Stephen King

“Sometimes it takes another person to believe in us." - Steven Pressfield

"I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am." - Sylvia Plath

It's both a blessing and a curse to feel everything so very acutely.

"It’s ok if you fall down and lose your spark. Just make sure that when you get back up, you rise as the whole damn fire." - Colette Werden

“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.” - Jonathan Safran Foer

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"If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much." - Jim Rohn

“It’s hard to win an argument with a smart person, but it’s damn near impossible to win an argument with a stupid person.” - Bill Murray

The sacrifice isn’t in creating your art; that’s a part of your nature. No, the struggle arises in sharing with the world. They’ll either love you or torture you for it.

"The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end. The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training."

“If you are willing to look at another person’s behavior toward you as a reflection of the state of their relationship with themselves rather than a statement about your value as a person, then you will, over a period of time cease to react at all.” - Yogi Bhajan

"When I choose to see the good side of things, I’m not being naive. It is strategic and necessary. It’s how I learned to survive through everything." - Waymond Wang I felt this quote in my bones.

"It's the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it." - Frank Warren

“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” - W.B. Yeats

"Once your past no longer has the power to define you, your future is, quite literally, yours for the taking. Every single beautiful thing you could possibly want or imagine will be yours." - Dan Pearce

On this day, 49 years ago (May 25th, 1977), Star Wars was released in theaters. Happy 49th Anniversary Star Wars!

"Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus." - Wayne Thiebaud

“Sometimes you could get rid of the ghosts that were haunting your life if you could only work up enough courage to face them.” - Stephen King

“Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone.” - Fred Rogers

"We have those who will love us even if we cut them into pieces and those who will hate us even if we feed them pure honey." - Imam Ali

"For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.” - Rudyard Kipling

I try to do good in the World, not out of fear or for a reward, but because it feels better not to be an asshole.

“The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that that situation is over, you cannot move forward.” - Steve Maraboli

"Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies." - Stephen King

“Control the things you can control. Let everything else take a flying fuck at you, and if you must go down, go down with your guns blazing.” - Stephen King

"The danger is buying in; that your concern becomes success, rather than fulfillment. They're two different beasts, & my feeling is that you should seek fulfillment. You should not measure your worth in how much you have or how popular you are, but how happy you are with what you do." - GDT

Growing up my friends and I had a saying, "First times an accident. Second times a coincidence. Third time there's enemy activity."

Damn. @allenpanakalart.com's card was already gorgeous but this is unbelievably epic

I'm conditioned to not give up on people so easily. It's one of my greatest faults and my best attributes.

The first card I illustrated for Magic: The Gathering.