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PERSEVERANCE

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do something I can do.
- Helen Keller, from The Story of My Life: The Restored Edition (Modern Library Classics)

The angel doesn’t sit on your shoulder unless the pencil’s in your hand.
- Mary Oliver

Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.
- Kurt Vonnegut