"I believe that true identity is found . . . in creative activity springing from within. It is found, paradoxically, when one loses oneself. Woman can best refind herself in some kind of creative activity of her own."

-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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“To do what you wanna do, to leave a mark - in a way that you think is important and lasting - that's a life well-lived.”

Source : "Excerpts From Laurene Powell Jobs’ First Interview Since The Death Of Steve Jobs". Interview with Brian Williams, techcrunch.com. April 12, 2013.
“You will only fail to learn if you do not learn from failing.”

Source : Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.38, Hal Leonard Corporation
“Perfect harmony of body and mind are my key to personal balance and happiness.”
“It's all the same when you're lonely”
“I understand why creative people like dark, but American audiences dont like dark. They like story. They do not respond to nervous breakdowns and unhappy episodes that lead nowhere. They like their characters to be a part of the action. They like strength, not weakness, a chance to work out any dilemma.”
“Nobody is born a dancer.”
“The art of leadership . . . consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention. . . . The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belong to one category.”
“How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me.”

Source : W. H. Auden, Katherine Bucknell (2003). “Juvenilia: Poems, 1922-1928”, p.41, Princeton University Press

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