Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
― Marilyn Monroe
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Author: D.M. Sessous
Kaleidoscope #866
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Kaleidoscope #865
New Beginnings are often disguised as painful endings. –Lao Tzu
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Kaleidoscope #864
Tomorrow, is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.
–Brad Paisley
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Kaleidoscope #863
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.
― Gilda Radner
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Kaleidoscope #862
Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play the music you want to hear, write the books you want to read, build the products you want to use – do the work you want to see done.
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
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Kaleidoscope #861
Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history, etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the ‘creative bug’ is just a wee voice telling you, ‘I’d like my crayons back, please.’
― Hugh MacLeod, Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity
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Kaleidoscope #860
Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn’t matter. I’m not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for.
― Alice Walke
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Kaleidoscope #859
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing
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Quote of the Day – Do not spoil…
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
― Epicurus
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D.M. Sessous: writer, artist & dreamer 