Quotes from Laurence G. Boldt

I will be a bonfire and dare the world to put me out.

One's true work is never merely 'my work,' but humanity's work. It's not really self-expression, unless by 'self' we mean it with a capital S, and that Self is the Self within all mankind.

Concentrate on what you need to do... Do step one. Begin! That's the important thing- Did you do step one? Did you actually do it?... It's not a matter of 'Can you do it?' If you do it, you're doing it.

No genuine artist views himself as superior in essence to others.

Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your vocation.

The life spent in doing what you love is a different life indeed from putting yourself out for hire to the highest bidder.

When you raise your expectations of yourself, you create a space to grow into.

many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like." On the other hand, any true enjoyment serves to make us feel more deeply connected with everything else. Enjoying good food, music, sex, and books, enjoying pleasant physical surroundings and beautiful things, traveling to interesting places—all these enrich and enliven us. In the West, spirituality has been long

A hero is, in the words of Joseph Campbell, "someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself."2

you need the sustained motivation that comes from having a real passion for your work, and that requires a self-defined sense of purpose.

When speculation becomes "truth," opinion "fact," and prejudice a "holy cause," demagoguery is not far behind.

The Warrior battles the whole of his life, within and without, against the notion that life doesn't make a difference.