"Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition." (W.H. Auden)

"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan."

(Eleanor Roosevelt)

"The easiest route to take is to glide in the direction of wherever fate pushes. But living at the mercy of circumstance makes you a passive participant in your own story. Without a fight against fate (aka the status quo), you'll never venture beyond the expected." (Scott Belsky)

"Graceful conduct is the chief ornament of life; it gets you out of any tight situation." (Baltasar Gracián)

Content marketing and blogging may be diametrically opposed to each other, but one isn’t bad and the other good. There’s just what’s right for how you want to operate and what you need your content to do for you or your audience. It’s just something to consider – does the intent of how you want to exist as a content creator online actually line up with how you’re operating? If it doesn’t, perhaps it’s time to change.

(Paul Jarvis)

"Those who work much, do not work hard."

(Henry David Thoreau)

"It appear[s] like a calm existence [but] the turmoil is invisible.”

(Maira Kalman)

"With your expertise and knowledge, but you’ll never be an artist And I’m harder on myself than you could ever be regardless What I’ll never be is flawless, all I’ll ever be is honest Even when I’m gone they’re gonna say I brought it" (Eminem)

"People who have no choice are generally unhappy. But people with too many choices are almost as unhappy as those who have no choice at all." (Ellen Ullman)

"It is in our power to have no opinion about a thing, and not to be disturbed in our soul; for things themselves have no natural power to form our judgements."

(Marcus Aurelius)