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“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
― Lao Tzu

“If what you're doing doesn't make you happy, you're doing the wrong thing.”
― Bob Ross

“Be melting snow.
Wash yourself of yourself.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“Don't Panic.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.”
― Robert Henri

“The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook.”
― Robert Henri

“There are people who buy pictures because they were difficult to do, and are done. Such pictures are often only a record of pain and dull perseverance. Great works of art should look as though they were made in joy. Real joy is a tremendous activity, dull drudgery is nothing to it.”
― Robert Henri, The Art Spirit

“Look past your thoughts, so you may
drink the pure nectar of This Moment.”
― Rumi

“We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.”
― Rumi

“She waited for the train to pass. Then she said, "I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.”
― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

“The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night.”
― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

“Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. Start by getting something—anything—down on paper. What I’ve learned to do when I sit down to work on a shitty first draft is to quiet the voices in my head.”
― Anne Lamott