Patsy Desautel > Patsy's Quotes

“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.”
― Joseph Chilton Pearce

“To live a creative life we must first lose the fear of being wrong.”
― Joseph Chilton Pearce

“As for myself, however, today is the day, and I dare not wait for some slow cultural drift finally to pave the way that I might easily float into some nebulous social salvation. I cannot depend on 'them' 'out there' to order into coherency this small sphere of my only present now.”
― Joseph Chilton Pearce, The Crack in the Cosmic Egg: New Constructs of Mind and Reality

“What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.”
― Joseph Chilton Pearce, Teaching Children to Love: 80 Games & Fun Activities for Raising Balanced Children in Unbalanced Times

“Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
― C.E.M. Joad

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.
What mood is that?
Last-minute panic.”
― Bill Watterson

“Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot