“Say who you are… in your life and in your work. Tell someone out there who is lost, someone not yet born, someone who won’t be born for 500 years…. you’ll help that person be less lonely in their world because…”

Posted on March 16, 2020 by A.M. Simpson under motivation

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“Build pockets of stillness into your life… There is a creative purpose to daydreaming, even to boredom. The best ideas come to us when we…”

Posted on July 12, 2019 by A.M. Simpson under motivation

Art of Quotation

“Build pockets of stillness into your life. Meditate. Go for walks. Ride your bike going nowhere in particular. There is a creative purpose to daydreaming, even to boredom.
The best ideas come to us when we stop actively trying to coax the muse into manifesting and let the fragments of experience float around our unconscious mind in order to click into new combinations.
Without this essential stage of unconscious processing, the entire flow of the creative process is broken.”

Maria Popova, author

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Helen Keller was born on this day.

Posted on June 27, 2019 by A.M. Simpson under Born on this day, Inspiration, motivation

Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880.

Famous American woman who, though deaf and blind, became a women’s suffragist and leftist political activist. She published twelve books and a number of articles over the course of her life and was a famous activist.