Today's Quote: Cynthia Ozick

It is the same for any type of artist. Strive to be the best you can be without comparing yourself to others. --DM

Text:
To be any sort of competent writer one must keep one's psychological distance from the supreme artists.
~ Cynthia Ozick

Today's Quote: Jay Woodman

Text:
It’s no good getting worked up about stuff--it’s better to relax and laugh at our mistakes, then figure out how to learn from them and move on.
~ Jay Woodman

Today's Quote: Proverbial Wisdom

Text:
Learn from your tears and you will win laughing.
~ Spanish proverb

Today's Quote: Jodi Picoult

Text:
You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.
~ Jodi Picoult

Today's Quote: Emily Brontë

Text:
'Twas grief enough to think mankind
All hollow servile insincere
But worse to trust to my own mind
And find the same corruption there
~ Emily Brontë

Today's Quote: Proverbial Wisdom

Text:
Unfortunates learn from their own mistakes, and the lucky ones learn from other's mistakes.
~ Afghan proverb

Today's Quote: Vincent van Gogh

In 2020, be the artist you were meant to be! --DM

Text:
The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
~ Vincent van Gogh
Self Portrait by Vincent van Gogh.

Today's Quote: John Muir

Good tidings to all as we look forward to a new year. --DM

Text:
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
~ John Muir

Today's Quote: Louisa May Alcott

Text:
I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.
~ Louisa May Alcott

Today's Quote: Author Unknown

Text:
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.
~ Author unknown
Illustration by Jessie Willcox Smith.

Today's Quote: Emily Post

Something to take to heart at dinner today. Happy Thanksgiving! --DM

Text:
Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.
~ Emily Post
Photo by Jack Delano.

Today's Quote: Baltasar Gracián

Text:
The greatest of sages can commit one mistake, but not two; he may fall into error, but he doesn’t lie down and make his home there.
~ Baltasar Gracián

Today's Quote: Stephen Colbert

Text:
You can’t laugh and be afraid at the same time—of anything. If you're laughing, I defy you to be afraid.
~ Stephen Colbert

Photo by David Shankbone.