“The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale.”
"Love is made up of three unconditional properties in equal measure: 1) acceptance, 2) understanding, 3) appreciation. Remove any one of the three and the triangle falls apart. Which, by the way, is something highly inadvisable. Think about it — do you really want to live in a world of only two dimensions? So, for the love of a triangle, please keep love whole."
- Vera Nazarian
Love
"I am happy. I have something to accomplish, create, and achieve. I am happy."
- Vera Nazarian
Happiness
"Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light."
- Vera Nazarian
Inspiration
"The difference between real life and a story is that life has _significance_, while a story must have _meaning_. The former is not always apparent, while the latter always has to be, before the end."
- Vera Nazarian
Inspiration
"Have you ever seen the dawn? Not a dawn groggy with lack of sleep or hectic with mindless obligations and you about to rush off on an early adventure or business, but full of deep silence and absolute clarity of perception? A dawning which you truly observe, degree by degree. It is the most amazing moment of birth. And more than anything it can spur you to action. Have a burning day."
- Vera Nazarian
Inspiration
"You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."
- Maya Angelou
Creativity
"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless."
- Jamie Paolinetti
Creativity
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
- Herman Melville
Creativity
"I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying."
- Oscar Wilde
Creativity
"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too."
- Isabel Allende
Creativity