A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people. Laughter is the best creative medicine. ~John Cleese

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness ~ Maya Angelou

Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one else ever thought. ~Albert Einstein

“I need rituals that encourage me to embrace what is repetitive, ancient, and quiet.” ― Tish Harrison Warren, Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life

What I’ve used [the cut-up technique] for ... is igniting anything that might be in my imagination. It can often come up with very interesting attitudes to look into. ~David Bowie

Unused creativity isn't benign. It lives within us until it’s expressed, neglected to death, or suffocated by resentment and fear. ~Brene Brown

Writing is “based in a craving to get through the curtains of things as they appear, to things as they are, and then into the larger, wilder space of things as they are becoming.” ~May Swenson

Ask the world to reveal its quietude ... the true quiet by which birdsongs, trees, bellworts, snails, clouds, storms become what they are, and are nothing else. ~Wendell Berry

Nothing, not one thing, hurts us more — or causes us to hurt others more — than our certainties. ~Maria Popova

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. ~Voltaire

Or maybe it was more like the development of a delight muscle. Something that implied that the more you study delight, the more delight there was to study. ~Ross Gay

Intuition is perception via the unconscious that brings forth ideas, images, new possibilities, and ways out of blocked situations. ~Carl Jung