When you're tempted to complain something is too extreme for you, keep it to yourself. It probably wasn't made for you Humbird0 It's better to understand something you hate, then to hate something you don't understand Humbird0 Ideas need to be in a state of change to grow Humbird0 Don't worry about picking things for "the audience". There is an audience for everything. Draw what you love and your audience will find you Humbird0 Any idea can feel fresh and new if it is treated like a new idea. Regardless of whether it actually is Humbird0 Supporting people isn't about "exclusive" access to "products"... it's about encouraging awesome people to keep adding awesome things into the world Humbird0 People respect a copyright that protects an artist. Nobody respects a copyright for a "rights-holder" who creates nothing. Humbird0 You can't become good at something that you are afraid to suck at. That's always the first step Humbird0 The key to becoming good at something is to enjoy being bad at it Humbird0 Our strongest skills are things we picked up while doing things we enjoy. No amount of forcing yourself to "practice" can ever compete with joy Humbird0 You must make your hobbies unneccessary, in order to enjoy them Humbird0 Playing is learning. Skill is just a side-effect Humbird0 It seems like hate toward any group has a way to becoming self-consuming. On some level, we're all in this together Humbird0 One nice picture is more meaningful than all the parking lots in the world, no matter how permanent or useful they seem. Nobody will miss a parking lot Humbird0 Understanding my kinks doesn't mean I chose them. I just found my buttons and figured out what pushes them Humbird0 A person cannot choose their preferences or feelings, but they can always choose their actions. Judge a person's actions, not their thoughts. It makes no sense to blame people for things they have no control over Humbird0 People don't read words. They read words about pictures Humbird0 Fiction is how normal people safely enjoy dangerous things Humbird0 You'll never read stories on your computer unless that computer looks like something to read Humbird0 What if there is no past or future, only the ever-changing present? Humbird0 There is no "later." There is only "now" and "not now." Humbird0 Being happy and pursuing happiness are opposites. One focuses on what you already have. The other focus on what you do not have Humbird0 "Good" is something you do, not something you are. You are only human Humbird0 Success isn't happiness. But happiness is success Humbird0 The odd thing about humor is that it can sugarcoat just about anything Humbird0 You can't replace something with nothing Humbird0 Sometimes the only way to learn is the hard way Humbird0 Seeing something coming doesn't prevent it from hitting you Humbird0 Just because you can, doesn't mean you should Humbird0 As long as you're learning, you're not failing Bob Ross Never Build Your House On Someone Else's Land A wise business adage Be the reason someone believes in good people Reassurance means a lot to an over-thinker Humans have a finite amount of capacity for sweating details mcfunley You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great Zig Ziglar When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace Interested people are interesting Destin (SmarterEveryDay) Security at the cost of usability comes at the cost of security AviD's Rule of Usability The creative adult is the child who survived boy-so-pale The only good artists are the shitty ones who never gave up. Rattlecat Instead of wondering when our next vacation is, we should set up a life we don't need to escape from Seth Godin You will never need another soul to make you complete, but you will always need one to see the reflection of your existence Because she competes with no one, no one can compete with her Lao Tzu Who The Frick Frack Tallywack Fucky Ducky Is Bucky? If you win an agrument, you learn nothing Bhuddist saying Pornography is the canary in the coalmine of free speech: It is the first freedom to die Myles Jackman Success is not in the result, it's in the attempt. The results are the proof you did it at all Chirart Find something you don't know how to do... do it anyway... repeat until you pick up on the pattern Eevee Confidence is not "They will like me." Confidence is "I'll be fine if they don't" Be the person you needed when you were younger Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence Napoleon Bonaparte It's easy to make things bigger. It's hard to make things better Douglass Crockford Don't let your ears hear what your eyes didn't see, and don't let your mouth say what your heart doesn't feel Wise Man Phil May u forever have the artistic courage of a 13 yr old with a wolf oc on deviantart WindyCarnage Do not call the inability to start laziness. Call it fear. Stop yelling at yourself Julia Cameron Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am Henry Miller Friendship means understanding, not agreement. It means forgiveness, not forgetting. It means the memories last, even if contact is lost Wise Man Phil The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself Wise Man Phil Manners cost me nothing Don't ask someone for their opinion and then get mad when they give it to you Wise Man Phil Forget about all the reasons why something may not work. You only need to find one good reason why it will Wise Man Phil An unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before Edith Wharton 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 It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it Aristotle Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them Madeleine L'Engle The self...once it is accepted, it can be given GrrrWolf Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves Carl Jung Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone Gertrude Stein We are the people our parents warned us about Jimmy Buffett Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes Confucious Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in Leonardo da Vinci I don't let my school get in the way of my education Mark Twain If someone is offered a fact which goes against their instincts, they will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, they'll refuse to believe it. If on the other hand they are offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to their instincts, they will accept it even on the slightest evidence Bertrand Russell Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent Jimmy Carter Seduction isn't making someone do what they don't want to do. Seduction is enticing someone into doing what they secretly want to do already Waiter Rant The happiness of a person in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of their passions Alfred Lord Tennyson People are not against you; they are merely for themselves Gene Fowler If freedom is outlawed, only outlaws will have freedom TSRH We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action Frank Tibolt All writing involves wish fulfillment. Good writing makes you careful what you wish for MonsterGirlExamination It's definitely never too late. If you can learn to press buttons on a controller you can learn to press buttons on a piano Toby Fox