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Quotes from other sources, both famous and obscure, have always been a favorite method for finding inspiration. Here are some I believe are the best I've found.

"Follow your bliss. ... If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on the kind of track that has been there the whole while, waiting for you, and the life you ought to be living is the one you are living."

- Joseph Campbell

"Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?"
- Charles de Lint

"Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen."
- John Steinbeck

"You need to believe in things that aren't true. How else can they become?"
- Terry Pratchet

"Sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and heart of the child."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person."
- Frank Barron

"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."
- Jack London

"Some things have to be believed to be seen."
- Ralph Hodgson

"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought."
- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

"Mediocrity does not see higher than itself. But talent instantly recognizes the genius."
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail."
- Edwin Land

"There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment."
- Norman Vincent Peale

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."
- Walt Disney

"Never, never, never, never give up."
- Winston Churchill

"Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish."
- Michelangelo

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
- Mark Twain

"Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life."
- Rachel Carson

"I went into the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."
- Henry David Thoreau

"May you live all the days of your life."
- Jonathan Swift

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