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"Many of these ideas will never be used but that doesn't matter; the ones you really want to explore will come back to you."

"Over the years I've collected many small toys and objects, and these have proved to be a rich source of inspiration. I can't resist arranging them in different places around the house or my workroom. This can stimulate many a new composition."

"Tidying is just a tool, not the final destination. The true goal should be to establish the lifestyle you want most once your house has been put in order."

"How long will you wait to honor who you are?"

"How long will you wait to honor who you are?"

"If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path," Joseph Campbell said. "Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path."

"It's your life, but only if you make it so. The standards by which you live must be your own standards, your own values, your own convictions in regard to what is right and wrong, what is true and false, what is important and what is trivial." -- Eleanor Roosevelt

"You need to make a habit of seeing, connecting with, and commenting on the everyday. And you need to do it every day, if even for a handful of minutes." — Danny Gregory

"Where do the dead go?" ... "The dead remain in our hearts. That is the only place we will find them and the only place to look." (Taikō)

"even an inanimate object deserves dignity, and how you care for objects says as much about you as how you care for people in your life."

"Ryūshin told me that it was okay for my mind to be skeptical, even clouded. Meditation was supposed to be like looking at the moon. Occasionally, a cloud would come in front of my mind. But this was just fine. No cloud stayed in front of the moon forever. Something, he said, always blows a cloud away."

"You have to think of time differently. Time is not just _your_ time." "Time doesn't just belong to humans."

"In order to become myself, my mistakes and hardships were also necessary."

"Hate is fear."

"Those who can ask without shame are viewing themselves in collaboration with—rather than in competition with—the world."

"Everybody out there is winging it to some degree, of this we can be pretty sure."

"When you're an artist, nobody ever tells you or hits you with the magic wand of legitimacy. You have to hit your own head with your own homemade wand. And you feel stupid doing it."

"It gave me faith in humanity. Even if they thought I was in drag."

"When you find things you genuinely enjoy, don't let anyone else make you feel bad about it. Don't feel guilty about the pleasure you take in the things you enjoy. Celebrate them."

"If you had lessons in perspective drawing in high school or college, your experience may have been much like mine ... an exercise in masochism."

"You have the power to make it better than it is." ... "You choose the message, the viewpoint, whether to record literally, to enhance, or completely change the scene."

"That blank sheet is your private sandbox—suspend judgement, avoid overthinking, and jump in!"

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