We slew three hundred of them, replied Artemisia, and it took two million of us to do it. These
We know that if we embrace our ideals, we must prove worthy of them. And that scares the hell out of us.
We all fight wars—in our work, within our families and abroad in the wider world. Each of us struggles every day to define and defend our sense of purpose and integrity, to justify our existence on th...
This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny.
There's a secret that real writers know that wannabe writers don't, and the secret is this: It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write.
The song we’re composing already exists in potential. Our work is to find it.
The professional loves her work. She is invested in it wholeheartedly. But she does not forget that the work is not her. Her artistic self contains many works and many performances. Already the next i...
The professional does not wait for inspiration; he acts in anticipation of it. He
The professional arms himself with patience, not only to give the stars time to align in his career, but to keep himself from flaming out in each individual work.
The problem with friends and family is that they know us as we are. They are invested in maintaining us as we are. The last thing we want is to remain as we are.
The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable.
The Spartans do not ask how many are the enemy but where are they. —Plutarch Sayings of the Spartans
Similarly the call to growth can be conceptualized as personal (a daimon or genius, an angel or a muse) or as impersonal, like the tides or the transiting of Venus. Either way works, as long as we're...
Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul’s evolution, the more Resistance we will feel
Resistance. I'm not sure why. Maybe it's easier to endow our partner with the power that we in fact possess but are afraid to act upon. Maybe it's less threatening to believe that our beloved spouse i...
Resistance has no strength of its own. Every ounce of juice it possesses comes from us. We feed it with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.
Remember, they hate us as no other nation, for we are to them that which they fear beyond all: women unmastered by men.
Panic Is Good Creative panic is good. Here’s why: Our greatest fear is fear of success. When we are succeeding—that is, when we have begun to overcome our self-doubt and self-sabotage, when we are adv...
Our very existence makes them abominate us, for it calls their own wives and daughters to aspire to freedom.
Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.