“We have this terrible attitude that sacrifices are bad things. No, sacrifices are the things that make things meaningful to you." – August Turak
"You are far more powerful than you've been told. We have a sense of powerlessness now…I just want you to know that this power, which is usually denied by authority figures, is something you were born with." - Lynne McTaggart
"I just started writing and next thing you know I have a manuscript in front of me." - Marianna Buffolino
“After speaking to the teacher…she made me realize that it is possible, just as long as I'm willing to keep honing my craft, taking rejections well, and just keep going.” – Liv Arnold
"There can be many solutions to our financial problems, but most of us try to solve them by working more hours, and it's not an intelligent way of doing it. You have to work smarter, and the way you do it is to use your gift, use your talent." - Ken Honda
“Start doing things and figure out what it is that you want to do that leans into your creativity.” – Rella B.
“You have to create an undying, almost unrealistic belief in yourself.” – Eliot Marshall
"When you know who you are, it doesn't matter what anyone else says." – Richard Kweku EzeAgu Akinyemi
“Connect you to all of you.” - Janell Warkentin
"I'm only positive because I got knocked down so hard a few different times in my life.” – Kate McKay
"Fantasy is really healthy for the imagination…it allows people to escape and allows them to think of something different.” – Cyndi Brec
“You can't win with everybody, but you can win with yourself, so why not bet on you?” – Karin Freeland
“Writing your story is an incredibly empowering act." – Alison Wearing
"We are sending an image of ourselves through our words." - Erin Lebacqz
"Luck is the ability to take the correct action in an opportunity." - Victoria M. Gallagher
“We wanted to do something that created a personal impact for women and men, and that's where our book kind of bloomed out of.” – Lisa Cox
“As a writer, if you want to have a book published, you really need to decide and go with that choice of 'I'm going to make this happen.’” – Caroline Fernandez
"Once I changed my relationship with myself, from not liking who I was to accepting and changing what didn't work for me, it changed my relationships with everyone else." – Martin Salama
“Books are such a powerful thing. Whether it's nonfiction or fiction, it's a way of seeing into the universe that you wouldn't have seen before.” – Zoë Routh
"You don't regret the things that you did; you regret the things you never did.” – Magda Kay
“When you can love yourself, that love is the gift and the treasure you never ever let go.” - Dr. Kyomi O’Connor
“Morning pages saved my writing life.” - Liz Mugavero
"Improv is play, it's playing as an adult with everything … it's in a supportive place and there's not really many places where you can just go hey how's it going? I'm a robot and I got sausages for hands and everyone's going to agree with you." – Keith Saltojanes
“It's selfish if you don't become the best version of you for other people.” – Kevin Dupree