"Have the #â€Ž life you want by being fully present to the life you have."

-- Mark Nepo

“I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.”
“Modernistic-Abstractionist-Art... consists of 75% explanation and 25% God knows what!”

Source : Said to William O. Chessman on March 27, 1936. "Maxfield Parrish". Book by Coy L. Ludwig, 1973.
“What does "success" mean to you? Was Mother Teresa a "success"? Was your favorite teacher a "success"? Were your parents, grandparents, your pastor, your best friends a "success"? Success is as personal as a fingerprint or DNA; you must define it for yourself.”
“The purpose of life is a life with a purpose. So Iâ€™d rather die for a cause, than live a life that is worthless.”

Source : Song: The Martyr, Album: The Martyr, 2011
“The number of different aspects that the face of a man has assumed may be taken almost as a physiognomical measure of his ... genius.”
“I wrote 'All You Could Ask For' to honor a friend, Heidi Armitage, who left us much too soon in 2009 at the age of 43.”
“I need sometimes to hang back in the shadows with my pen and paper, and then other times, I need to take center stage in my own creations. The trick is to know when to hang back, and when to step forward. It's a perpetual ongoing balance.”

Source : Source: lunchticket.org
“What Independence Has Come to Mean to Me: The Pain of Solitude. The Pleasure of Self-Knowledge”

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