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This is the most simple and basic component of life: our struggles determine our successes.

© Mark Manson

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

© Banksy

You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.

© Rumi

Do not yet see, that, if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.

© Ralph Waldo Emerson

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.

© Unknown

We are wiser than we know.

© Ralph Waldo Emerson

You may delay, but time will not.

© Benjamin Franklin

I'm not performing miracles, I'm using up and wasting a lot of paint…

© Claude Monet

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

© Herman Melville

My philosophy is that it's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe and not to explore at all.

© Sophia Loren