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Day: March 6, 2011

25 Inspiring Quotes

1. You had the power all along my dear. – Glinda the Good Witch.

2. Today is a new day. – Chicken Little

3. When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won’t come up with a handful of mud either. – Leo Burnett

4. What the caterpillar calls a tragedy, the Master calls a butterfly. – Richard Bach

5. Earth’s crammed with heaven. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

6. Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself. – Michel de Montaigne

7. She decided to enjoy more and endure less. – Unknown

8. I am unfolding in fulfilling ways. Only good can come to me. I now express health, happiness, prosperity, and peace of mind. – Unknown

9. Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desire can be won. It exists. It is real. It is possible. It is yours. – Ayn Rand

10. There is a connection between self-nurturing and self-respect. – Julia Cameron

11. Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation. – Andre Gide

12. Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions all life is an experience. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

13. If the future road loom ominous or unpromising, and the road back uninviting, then we need to gather our resolve and, carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. – Maya Angelou

14. Breath in experience. – Muriel Rukeyser

15. Speak your mind even if your voice shakes. – Unknown

16. I rejoice in what I have and I know that fresh new experiences are always ahead. I greet the new with open arms. I trust life to be wonderful. – Louise Hay

17. Too much of a good thing can be wonderful. – Mae West

18. You must do the thing you think you cannot do. – Eleanor Roosevelt

19. Sprinkle joy. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

20. He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. – Johann von Goethe

21. She realized that she was missing a great deal by being sensible. – Unknown

22. She was kind and loving and patient…with herself. – Unknown

23. I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I’ve ended up where I needed to be. – Douglas Adams

24. You’ll never be sad if you remember all the good things that have happened to you. – Karolina Grekov

25. What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger. – Unknown

Will Eisner Quotes


Will Eisner was an american comics writer, artist and entrepreneur. I want to celebrate his birthday in our own way, sharing Will Eisner Quotes.

A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two.

Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you’re different in a society, you’re funny.

I want to point out to adults that there is a world of good material available to you now in comic form – in this medium – and learn to give it your support because the more you support it, the better the material will be as it comes out.

I’ve spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons.

The work we do is as demanding as any of the great painters because nothing that happens on the page of a comic is accidental. It has to be imagined first in your mind before you do it. Those of us who know something about the art of painting know that working on a canvas, very often a lot of serendipitous things happen that work to the advantage of the painter ultimately.

All professionals should teach at some time in their career because they are obliged to pass on what they have learned.

As for me, I am in pursuit of excellence. I have no time to get old.

You can’t talk about heartbreak to a kid.