just some quotes i like

"If you enter the dark side of life, and come through it, you emerge with more strength and passion." - Nicole Kidman

For some reason, I've turned myself inside out and all my guts have spilled onto my blog. One day I'll run out of stuff but not yet.  -James Altucher

(and an article from this same guy's blog:)

• Van Gogh never had an art exhibition in his lifetime
• Emily Dickinson never published a book
• Kafka didn’t have a published novel while alive
• Henry David Thoreau’s Walden sold only 2000 copies before his death
• John Kennedy Toole had no books published until after his suicide
• Stieg Larsson’s “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” was published in 2008, four years after his death

These people did their art in isolation. They teased the blood and guts out of their bodies and used the blood to write and create.

You are an artist. Make everything you do an attempt to look inside yourself, to smile inside yourself, to build the character first so that reputation will follow.

You do this with love before labels. You do this with curiosity without expectation of discovery.

This process is very very lonely. No matter what you do, life is hard, life wants you to discover new ways around new problems. I try every day not to be afraid of whatever the new problems are. Building character lets you create your art, even if nobody else sees it.

And I know it’s lonely.

But you aren’t lonely if you love the person you are alone with.

And from there starts the rippling that will take you to every shore in the world of experience.

(--James Altucher)

“I sometimes wonder if all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.” ~ #CSLewis

"It's funny...over the years I've had all kinds of people pop up in my dreams at night....but honestly, i kid you not... for some reason _________ has never been one of them."   ---me.

“The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God” ― #Dostoyevsky

Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.” ~ #BenFranklin