“Here's another test. Of any activity you do, ask yourself: If I were the last person on earth, would I still do it?”— Steven Pressfield, amazon.com
“I want to be afraid but it seems that these days I'm caught under water and I'm falling farther. My heart's getting harder, I'm calling my father. Am I screaming to an empty sky?”— Tyler Joseph, youtube.com
“We each have a unique potential that was given to us at birth, but whether or not we cultivate it is entirely up to us. In its purest sense, Must is why we are here to begin with, and choosing it is the journey of our lives.”— Elle Luna, amazon.com
“Music heard so deeply that it is not heard at all, but you are the music while the music lasts.”— T. S. Eliot, amazon.com
“Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”— Howard Thurman, amazon.com
“It is here, standing at the crossroads of Should and Must, that we feel the enormous reality of our fears, and this is the moment when many of us decide against following our intuition, turning away from that place where nothing is guaranteed, nothing is known, and everything is possible.”— Elle Luna, amazon.com
“What am I in the eyes of most people - a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person - somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then - even if that we were absolutely true, then I should like to show by my work what such an eccentr…”— Vincent Van Gogh, amazon.com
“Must is different. Must is who we are, what we believe, and what we do when we are along with our truest, most authentic self. It's that which calls to us most deeply. It's our convictions, our passions, our deepest held urges and desires - unavoidable, undeniable, and inexplicable. Unlike Should, M…”— Elle Luna, amazon.com
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”— Rumi, amazon.com
“What if who we are and what we do become one and the same? What if our work is so thoroughly autobiographical that we can't parse the product from the person? In this place, job descriptions and titles no longer make sense; we no longer go to work, we are the work.”— Elle Luna, amazon.com
“These pages are a pep talk to honor that voice inside of you that says you have something special to give. It's a reminder that while there is no map for where you're going, many have travelled this road before. It's permission to unlearn everything you've ever been told you should do in order to le…”— Elle Luna, amazon.com
“To be called to a life of extraordinary quality, to live up to it, and yet to be unconscious of it is indeed a narrow way. To confess and testify to the truth as it is in Jesus, and at the same time to love the enemies of that truth, his enemies and ours, and to love them with the infinite love of J…”— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, amazon.com
“Be quiet. Part of your responsibility is to honor the quiet inside yourself so you can hear the call.”— Oprah Winfrey, amazon.com
“Considering myself called of my God to instruct the ignorant, comfort the sorrowful, confirm the weak, and rebuke the proud; by tongue and lively voice in these corrupt days rather than to compose books for the age to come, seeing that so much is written, and yet so little well observed, I decree to…”— John Knox, goodreads.com
“Your guy will text and call you, not for any reason other than to let you know he’s thinking about you.”— Hedley Derenzie, thoughtcatalog.com
“Once you’ve gotten to the point where you’re open to a calling, there’s always a call.”— Hubert Dreyfus, full-tilt.blogspot.com