"Make your soul grow"

"What I had to say to you, moreover, would not take long, to wit: Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow."

- Letters of Note: quoted from Kurt Vonnegut's response letter to a group of high school students who wrote a letter to him in 2006.

Imagine

Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on... But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.

by C.S. Lewis 

Also in p 166 of All or Nothing by Mark Batterson

Motivations

"We become what we think about." "Are you going to sit back and wait?" Do what you like, seek what you love. Don't stop till you get there. Life shouldn't be a compromise. Priceless reminders about life I put on replay nonstop. 1. "When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you'll be successful" Eric Thomas 2. What if Money was no object? Alan Watts 3. Human Culture by Alan Watts 4. Change your Life