"People get inspired to write, paint, draw, sing, sculpt, dance in many different ways. And there are many types of art. But the one thing that they all have in common is that they are all a sort of magic. Sometimes the magic flows from oneâ€™s fingers, other times it is transferred to the person who experiences the result. Magic has always worked in mysterious ways."

-- Nnedi Okorafor

#Art Quotes #Writing Quotes #People Quotes

“I think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women!”
“You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.”
“When your world has shattered, ain't nothing else matters. It ain't over, it's only love and that's all.”
“Being an outsider to some extent, someone who does not "fit in" with others or is rejected by them for whatever reason, makes life difficult, but it also places you at an advantage as far as enlightenment is concerned. It takes you out of unconsciousness almost by force.”
“Problems are rarely as bad as we think-or rather, they are precisely as bad as we think.”

Source : Ryan Holiday (2014). “The Obstacle is the Way: The Ancient Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage”, p.68, Profile Books
“What volunteers bring is the human touch, the individual, caring approach that no government program, however well-meaning and well- executed, can deliver.”
“The trails of the world be countless, and most of the trails be tried; You tread on the heels of the many, till you come where the ways divide;And one lies safe in the sunlight, and the other is dreary and wan,But you look aslant at the Lone Trail, and the Lone Trail lures you on.”

Source : Robert William Service, “The Lone Trail”
“Living in South Korea as a girl meant living under a lot of discrimination and limitation. It was the same in my university and in the Korean literary world I am involved in.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

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