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    “The notion that I do my work here, now, like this, even when I do not feel like it, and especially when I do not feel like it, is very important. Because lots and lots of people are creative when they feel like it, but you are only going to become a professional if you do it when you don’t feel like it. And that emotional waiver is why this is your work and not your hobby.” ~ Seth Godin

      “Step by step, you make your way forward. That’s why practices such as daily writing exercises or keeping a daily blog can be so helpful. You see yourself do the work, which shows you that you can do the work. Progress is reassuring and inspiring; panic and then despair set in when you find yourself getting nothing done day after day. One of the painful ironies of work life is that the anxiety of procrastination often makes people even less likely to buckle down in the future.” ~ Gretchen Rubin

        “It’s the task that’s never started that’s more tiresome.” ~ Gretchen Rubin

          “What I do every day matters more than what I do once in a while.” ~ Gretchen Rubin

            “In the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.” ~ Jack Kerouac

              “Why not seize the pleasure at once?  How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation?” ~  Jane Austen

                “The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”  ~ Alan Watts

                  “Real strength is not just a condition of one’s muscle, but a tenderness in one’s spirit.” ~ McCallister Dodds

                    “No soul that aspires can ever fail to rise; no heart that loves can ever be abandoned. Difficulties exist only that in overcoming them we may grow strong, and they who have suffered are able to save.” ~ Annie Besant

                      “A man is born gentle and weak. At death, he is hard and stiff. Green plants are tender and filled with sap. At death, they are withered and dry. Therefore, the stiff and unbending is the disciple of death, and the gentle and yielding is the disciple of life.” ~ Lao Tzu

                        “You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.” ~ Rosa Parks

                          “If you imagine less, less will be what you undoubtedly deserve. Do what you love, and don’t stop until you get what you love. Work as hard as you can, imagine immensities, don’t compromise, and don’t waste time. Start now. Not 20 years from now, not two weeks from now. Now.” ~ Debbie Millman

                            “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” ~ Helen Keller

                              “Someone is enjoying shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” ~ Warren Buffett

                                “Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.” ~ W. Clement Stone

                                  “Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities — always see them, for they’re always there.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale

                                    “I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

                                      “No change in circumstances can repair a defect of character.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

                                        “To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same fields, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

                                          “A man is known by the books he reads.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson