quotes – swissmiss
That warm glow in your chest and broadened sense of possibility are the natural, organic results of getting it right. If you make a point to pause and enjoy the moment, you can fan that spark into a sustaining fire of motivation. If you snuff it out too quickly, you extinguish not just the good feeling of the moment but your energy for the future.
Lindsay C. Gibson • Self-Care for Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: Honor Your Emotions, Nurture Your Self, and Live with Confidence
Your creative impulse is like the firefly or the butterfly. It can be evasive, but if you follow its flickering light and allow it to take you on a journey, you can catch it.
Latham Thomas • Own Your Glow
form, demonstrates “the complexities with which our brain constructs the world in and around us, because it unifies thought and language, music and imagery in a clear, manageable way, most often with play, pleasure, and emotion.”
Ivy Ross • Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us
These moments of feel aren’t reserved for big moments. In fact, they’re most important for routine actions you perform over and over again. [...] In reality, it’s the mundane, everyday interactions that need our attention most.
(Not Boring) Software Inc. • The World's Most Satisfying Checkbox
“Creativity is about connections, and connections are not made by siloing everything off into its own space. New ideas are formed by interesting juxtapositions, and interesting juxtapositions happen when things are out of place . ”
Sari Azout • The End of Productivity
Other people are bursting with enthusiasm to share what they do. Or calm with confidence in the place that they’ve carved out in the world. These people have a twinkle to them. Even the tired ones shimmer.
Danielle LaPorte • The Fire Starter Sessions
Pulsating through them are a handful of common themes — the elementary particles of which any creative life, any life of passion and purpose, any fully human life is built — none looming larger than the relationship between vulnerability and belonging, which constellates our entire cosmos of being: what we make, how we love, why we long for the thi... See more
Maria Popova • Aloneness, Belonging, and the Paradox of Vulnerability, in Love and Creative Work
When you ignore or minimize an emotion, no matter how small or insignificant, you miss the opportunity to do something productive with that feeling.