How to Quit Your Day Job and Live Out Your Dreams: Do What You Love for Money

JOSEPH CAMPBELL: Myth is public dream; dream is private myth.

So long as you live, be radiant, and do not grieve at all. Life’s span is short and time exacts the final reckoning. —Epitaph of Seikilos for his wife (100 B.C.)

Johann Wolfgang Goethe made the most powerful statement about commitment I’ve ever run across: Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative [and creation] there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that moment one d

a letter written by choreographer Martha Graham to her student Agnes de Mille, who had asked to resign from her dance troupe because she felt inadequate: There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action. And because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique and if you block

Persistence is patience with a plan.