Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential. --Winston Churchill

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1 Don t judge me. You can t handle half of what I ve dealt with. There s a reason I do the things I do; there s a reason I am who I am. Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential. --Winston Churchill Life is Short. Buy the Artwork. Drink the Wine. Order the Dessert. The worst thing you can do to a person with an invisible illness is make them feel like they need to prove how sick they are depression is when you don t really care about anything anxiety is when you care too much about everything and having both is just like hell. There comes a time when you have to stop crossing oceans for people who wouldn t jump puddles for you. Some people aren t loyal to you they are loyal to their NEED of you once their needs change, so does their loyalty. All things are difficult before they are easy. --Thomas Fuller

2 All it takes is a beautiful fake smile to hide an injured soul, and they will never notice how broken you really are. --Robin Williams When someone is nasty or treats you poorly, don t take it personally. It says nothing about you, but a lot about them. The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change. --Carl Rogers An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose. --Langston Hughes I m not what I ve done. I m what I ve overcome. --Fireflight Everyone pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love. --Claude Monet It s really important to share the idea that being different might feel like a problem at the time, but ultimately diversity is a strength. --Carson Kressley Sane is boring. --R.A. Salvatore

3 A strong man can handle a strong woman. A weak man will say she has an attitude. --Sonya Parker Mental illness can be an invisible disability but I m not sure it should be. --Natalie Jeanne Champagne The job of an artist is to offer a sanctuary of beauty to an ugly world. --Jeff Goins Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. --Banksy I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men; they are far superior and always have been. --William Golding Don t change so people will like you. Be yourself and the right people will love you. No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but people say that or imply that all the time about people with mental illness. Elyn R. Saks It s just so bizarre how if you have diabetes, you take diabetes medication. But as soon as you have to take medication for your mind, it s such a stigma behind it. --Jennifer Lawrence

4 Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change. --Jim Rohn I shut my eyes in order to see. --Paul Gauguin The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. --Jackson Pollock I want to express my feelings, not illustrate them. --Jackson Pollock The principle of true art is not to portray, but to evoke. --Jerzy Kosinski Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel. --Hans Hofmann Underneath some strong, independent women are broken little girls who learned how to get back up and rely only on themselves. It s not that we have more patience as we grow older, it s just that we re too tired to care about all the pointless drama. --Karen Gibbs

5 It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception. --Robert Motherwell The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. --Aristotle Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. --Stella Adler The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without the work. --Emile Zola The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. --Pablo Picasso Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world. --Edward Hopper An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture. --Jean Cocteau Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don t matter and those who matter don t mind. --Dr. Seuss

6 To create one s own world takes courage. --Georgia O Keeffe Starting over does not necessarily mean starting at the beginning. --Colleen Anderson The need to create art is more than can be put into words because you have to release it from a place that can t be defined. --R Lee Estes I never paint my dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. --Frida Kahlo I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can t see from the center. --Kurt Vonnegut A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. --George Bernard Shaw You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star. --Friedrich Nietzsche There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who, with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun. --Pablo Picasso