“Support for the arts -- merde! A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore!”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this.

[Cormac McCarthy's Venomous Fiction, New York Times, April 19, 1992]”
― Cormac McCarthy

“If nobody knocks your door, knock your own door! The most precious support for you is the support you give yourself!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“An essential aspect of self-support is to remind yourself that success is not measurable, but a matter of feeling.”
― Eric Maisel, The Van Gogh Blues: The Creative Person's Path Through Depression

“One of the most difficult things I ever did was learn to support myself through my whole range of emotional experiences without running away.”
― Vironika Tugaleva

“When we understand who we are, and how our realities work, we can choose more consciously to shape our lives in an optimal way.
Knowledge of oneself is the very key to a happy life. Happiness is not something outside of our own consciousness that needs to be earned, and achieved. It is a choice that needs to be supported by positive actions. It is not enough to say that we want to be happy. Our desire of happiness, love and peace, needs to be supported by our state of being.”
― Raphael Zernoff

“Nakasalalay sa iyong sarili
ang pag-unlad ng iyong buhay,
hindi sa kapatid mo, hindi sa magulang mo,
hindi sa ibang tao, kundi sa iyo.”
― Jervin Balmediano

“What is success? What does it mean that someone is successful?
Success can be different things to different people. For us being successful is a conscious choice to be oneself. Success does not have to be dependent on any external circumstances and rules dictated by the mainstream society.
It does not matter where we live and what we possess. When we love and support ourselves unconditionally choosing to be ourselves as much as we can, this is for us, Being Successful.”
― Raphael Zernoff