We asked the community to share their favorite quotes and affirmations with us. Check some of those out below.

Jon Bangle | Producer, Writer, Actor, Director & Messhall Film Festival Creator

“If you feel safe in the area you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting.” Read more>>

Elsa Wörmann | Actress

‘Give a shit, have a thought’. To me it means a lot when it comes to acting, but it’s very applicable in real life too. To care, to make your character care. Everyone cares about something and it’s only you that can decide how to show it or not show it. It’s A quote I got from my amazing teacher Megan McNulty at ucla Read more>>

Yuexing Sun | Theater & Performance Artist

“Don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.” — David Bowie. I love this quote from David Bowie because it reminds me of maintaining a sense of optimism and openness toward a future brimming with possibilities. As an artist who creates works in an age of instability and at the same time has to deal with the unsustainability of personal life, one can easily feel panic and helpless in facing this kind of uncertainty. Read more>>

Morgan Lynn | Doula, Cook, Gardener

Right now I’m working with “soft, flexible mind” Creativity in craft, in relationships with others, to me is all about flow, movement, space, chaos to order. And with the process of birth, contraction leads to expansion for the birth of something, be it a baby, a song, a new idea or something else. Grieving is a part of the process when something is coming through, so a big part of the work I do, in the kitchen or in the birth space, is about keeping the mind soft and flexible, so that there is space for the creative flow to happen. Read more>>