Quotes. Inspirations. Motivations.

" I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night - there must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest." - Marilyn Monroe

Don't you love some great quotes??

I do. I live by them. Just when you think you're the only one feeling a certain way...or, nobody will understand how you feel...read a good quote.

I've compiled some of my favorites here. Each one has touched my heart and have really helped me on my journey. Hope you fall in love with one too.

And, if you know any that are good, please share! :)

"The moment one definitely commits oneself then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred...unforeseen incidents, meetings, and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way."

-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"The dreams of my heart are the dreams of the Universe dreaming through me."

-Julia Cameron

"Goethe said, 'Talent is developed in privacy', you know? And it's really true. There is a need for aloneness which I don't think most people realize for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting."

-Marilyn Monroe

"I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love."

-Marilyn Monroe

"If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything."

-Marilyn Monroe

"She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that's important, you know."

-Marilyn Monroe

"I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful."

-Marilyn Monroe

"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly."

-Richard Bach

"You did then what you knew how to do and when you knew better you did better."

-Maya Angelou to Oprah Winfrey

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant."

-Robert Louis Stevenson

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has beauty."

-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine. We were born to make manifest the glory that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

-Nelson Mandela (quoting Marianne Williamson)

"Keep your wits about you. It is not necessary to barter your talent, your self-esteem, and your youth for the chance of pleasing your inferiors. It is more frightening but it is not less productive to go your own way, to form your own theatre company, to write and stage your own plays, to make your own film. You have an enormously greater chance of eventually presenting yourself to, and eventually appealing to, an audience by striking out on your own, by making your own plays and films, than by submitting to the industrial model of the school and studio."

-True and False by David Mamet

"Your talents are of value, they return value to you."

-Cameron Thor

"You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself into one."

-Henry D. Thoreau

"The thing always happens that you really believe; and the belief in a thing makes it happen."

-Frank Lloyd Wright

"Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes."

-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"There is a vitality,

a life force, an energy,

a quickening that is translated through you into action,

and because there is only one of you in all of time,

this expression is unique.

And if you block it,

it will never exist through any other medium

and it will be lost.

The world will not have it.

It is not your business to determine how good it is,

nor how valuable,

nor how it compares with other expressions.

It is your business to keep it yours clearly and

directly, to keep the channel open.

You do not have to believe in yourself or your work.

You have to keep yourself open and aware

to the urges that motivate you.

Keep the channel open.

No artist is pleased.

There is no satisfaction whatever at any time.

There is only a queer divine dissatisfaction,

a blessed unrest that keeps us marching

and makes us more alive than the others."

- Martha Graham